Royal Gazette

A graphic designer today won $3,000 in a City of Hamilton sign design competition. Keeon Minors, the founder of web graphics agency Lead x Design, will also have his submission installed in the city a…

A charity for seniors has revamped its website to help improve access to services. Age Concern said the redesigned ageconcern.bm was easier to use and that visitors would be able to view information a…

Legislation to ensure employers create policies on workplace bullying and sexual harassment will come in to force at the start of next month, the labour minister said today. Jason Hayward added the ad…

A Rotary club has launched a book drive to encourage literacy in young children. The “From Teens to Tots” initiative will provide four primary schools – Harrington Sound, Elliot, Prospect and Victor …

A Bermuda bank is donating $125,000 to charities struggling to survive during the coronavirus pandemic. Clarien Bank has also pledged a further $25,000 annually to private school scholarships for Blac…

After the eighth – and final – attempt Nasa last night launched its KiNET-X mission when a Black Brant XII rocket blasted off from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia. It meant that peop…

Electricity bills should drop after the Regulatory Authority yesterday reduced the retail rate for customers of the Bermuda Electric Light Company. The move, which was welcomed by Walter Roban, the h…

The potential side effects of a minimum wage must be considered before action is taken, according to the Chamber of Commerce. Cordell Riley, the chairman of the Wage Commission, announced last week th…

Perseverance has paid off for a young man whose life was transformed after taking part in the youth development programme, Beyond Rugby. After overcoming personal challenges that used to hold him back…

Bermuda’s position on Britain’s “amber list” of Covid-19 travel restrictions is “not surprising” in light of the island’s current designation of community transmission for the virus, the Premier said….

Until six years ago, Bermuda wasn’t on Phil Hospod’s radar as a place to visit, or invest in. But in 2015 his journalist wife was assigned to cover the Bermuda Triangle Challenge running races for a U…

Artwork at a landmark former HSBC building has been replaced with a new installation as part of the transformation of the old bank into offices and shops. Untitled (Three Dancing Figures) by pop a…

Work to create a second Covid-safe courtroom is expected to be completed by the end of next month, according to the Ministry of Public Works. A spokesman for the Ministry said that Magistrates’ Court …

The post office in Flatts will be closed until next Thursday because of staff shortages, the Government said yesterday. The spokeswoman confirmed that the office had been shut down since Monday becaus…

Government intends to launch a “Covid safe key” programme to open up opportunities for those who have been vaccinated or recently tested negative for Covid-19. A Government spokeswoman confirmed tonig…

More than 131 people received their first Covid-19 vaccine at Victor Scott Primary School today as part of the Close to Home mobile vaccination programme. A Government spokeswoman said 143 people rece…

It’s not polluted, it is stable and it burns well – and it turns out that Bermuda beeswax could be the perfect fuel for satellites. Scientists with MIT’s Space Enabled research group have been given a…

More than 100 people this morning took part in a second car rally protesting against the Government’s Covid-19 regulations. Cars and bikes gathered outside Bernard’s Park for the start of the rally, w…

Hundreds of homes in the East End have lost power this morning in the wake of thunderstorms. According to the Belco outline outage map, 932 customers were without electricity as of 10am. The majority …

The new owner of Cambridge Beaches said yesterday he planned to plough millions of dollars into the resort over the next few years. But, despite his faith in the long-term future of tourism, Phil Hosp…

A motorcycle dealership yesterday sounded the alarm over people riding motorbikes with dangerous crash helmets. Now Cycle Care on Hamilton’s Dundonald Street has launched a scheme where old helmets ca…

A driver who admitted drinking before he got behind the wheel who hit a woman and broke her leg was yesterday sent to the DUI court. Heinz Roser, 52, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on March 26 t…

A fintech firm that promised to create a global compliance base in Bermuda and invest millions in the island is under investigation by US authorities. The US internal Revenue Service and US Department…

A French yacht en route to the Azores was towed to the island yesterday after it was hit by rough weather and mechanical problems. The Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said the 40ft French boat Reve…

A total of four new coronavirus cases were reported tonight. The infections were among 946 test results that came back to health officials today – a positivity rate of 0.4 per cent. There were three …

A book by a pioneer antiracism activist is to go online. online for free by the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda. The family of the late David Critchley has given permission for his book Sh…

The Ministry of Labour today highlighted the process for the children of Bermudians born overseas to gain status. The spokesman said: “A child born outside Bermuda who is a Commonwealth citizen will a…

International assessors will visit Bermuda next week to review the damage sustained to a pilot boat that struck reefs. A Government spokeswoman said the St David, purchased in 2011 for $2,795,000, is…

A Bermudian lawyer hired by a pressure group to challenge the Government over planned Covid-19 public safety regulations has withdrawn from the case. Charles Richardson was representing Constitutional…

A memorial flotilla sailed through Hamilton Harbour yesterday in tribute to three Marine & Ports staff who died within a week of each another. The vessels sounded their horns in a final salute to …

Almost $1 million was paid to a company owned by the Government’s chief fintech adviser for technology to help tackle the coronavirus crisis. The news was revealed in a list of health ministry spendin…

A senior police officer who won a gift basket for his wife in a Mothers’ Day raffle said yesterday that he bought tickets to help a good cause. Superintendent Sean Field-Lament was speaking as he coll…

Ashley Cassidy was gearing up for the continued expansion of her business 18 months ago. She built the operation over eight years from a single employee operation and one vehicle to one of Bermuda’s b…

A woman was fine $2,500 after she told Magistrates’ Court that she broke the Covid-19 curfew to pick up her daughter. Jahlae Raynor, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday to a breach of the earlier midnight to…

Bermuda Hospitals Board this week performed 3D mammograms for the first time this week. BHB upgraded its digital mammography unit to provide an imaging test that combines multiple X-rays to create a t…

An event designed to celebrate the work of Bermuda College is to be held later this month. Ralph Richardson, the BCF’s acting executive director for BCF which was launched in 2019 to raise funds for…

Employers could have to pay at least $17.30 an hour to staff if recommendations from the Wage Commission are adopted. At a press conference this morning Cordell Riley, the chairman of the commission, …

A temporary cut in the cost of liquor licences for bars and restaurants was toasted by the trade yesterday. Karl Massam, the general manager of restaurant group Yellowfin and chairman of the restauran…

A battery of scientific instruments in a special pod which was lost at sea for two years has been turned over to their owners after it washed up in Bermuda. The 800lb pod, designed to measure ocean co…

A fundraiser started in memory of a teenage boy who died in a road accident has raised three quarters of its $10,000 goal. Antoinette Burgess, who started the Kijani Burgess Dream Award in honour of …

A woman who was involved in a head-on collision while over the legal drink drive limit was yesterday banned from the roads for 18 months. Magistrates’ Court heard that Zyanne Lema, 21, left the Rum Bu…

A former cycle livery in Southampton could be changed into a pharmacy with a deli, according to a planning application submitted this week. The proposal from the Bermuda Pharmacy Group would create th…

The number of active Covid-19 cases has dropped by almost 700 in less than a month, new figures released this evening show. Latest figures show that there were just six new cases out of 1,229 test re…

Bermuda’s nurses were saluted today in recognition of their life-saving service during the coronavirus pandemic. International Nurses Week was marked by the Bermuda Nurses Association in a ceremony a…

Bermuda’s first online conference on culture and heritage remains open for registration. The summit this Sunday, to be aired live on Zoom at 11am, will launch Bermuda’s National Cultural Heritage Pol…

Senators approved a law to cut liquor licence fees during this morning’s session of the Upper House. The Liquor Licence (Fee Reduction) Temporary Amendment Act was rushed through the House of Assembl…

A new generation of coconut palm trees have been planted around the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo. The Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS) planted the 12 young plants over the weekend along BAMZ’s par…

Contractors for a new $30 million water system for the East End – underway since last February and expected to finish by the end of this year – were announced this morning. Lieutenant-Colonel David Bu…