Bermudian basketball prospect Ralph Scott and his IMG National teammates have opened their campaign at the inaugural NBA Academy International Showcase in Abu Dhabi with a defeat, falling 83-72 to their opponents in their first match.
The highly-anticipated showcase, which features some of the top high-school talent from around the world, saw the IMG National team unable to overcome their opposition despite a determined effort.
Scott, who is one of the hottest prospects in the 2026 recruiting class, came off the bench for IMG. In 17 minutes and 27 seconds of action, the 6-foot-7 wing worked hard on both ends of the court. While his shooting touch was not quite there, as he went 0 for 3 from the field, Scott contributed in other key areas.
The Bermudian native showed his versatility by registering one rebound, one steal, and one assist during his time on the floor. His presence and defensive effort were valuable, even as his team ultimately fell to the eleven-point defeat.
The IMG National team will look to bounce back quickly in the high-profile showcase as Scott aims to put up better numbers in the upcoming games, continuing to build his profile in front of scouts and college coaches.
Around 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, police Officers were conducting stop and search operations on Middle Road, Southampton, when they had cause to stop a motorcar driven by a 21-year-old-male.
Officers informed the driver of the reason for the stop before conducting a search of the vehicle.
During the search, officers recovered a machete under the front passenger seat.
The subject was arrested for possession of a bladed article in a public place.
Officers then conducted a physical search of the subject and recovered a quantity of suspected cannabis along with drug paraphernalia.
He was further arrested for offences committed under the misuse of drugs act.
UNDERAGE RIDER ON UNLICENSED BIKE
At 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, officers were conducting traffic stops at Harbour Road Paget when they stopped a motorcycle being ridden by a male.
Checks on his identification showed he was not old enough to hold a motorcycle rider license.
Further inquiries revealed that the bike license had been cancelled and its registration had expired.
Officers arrested and cautioned the male for the offence of Driving Whilst Disqualified by reason of age. He was conveyed to the Hamilton Police Station where he was processed and detained. He was subsequently issued moving violation tickets, (MVT’s) for the offences.
IMPAIRED MOTORCYCLE RIDER
Around 11:16 p.m. on the same date, Police attended a single Road Traffic Collision along South Road near the junction with Paynter’s Road, St. George’s.
Upon arrival, officers observed a male lying next to a motor cycle on the nearby golf course.
He was attended to for his injuries, at the scene and was subsequently transported by ambulance to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) for further treatment of those injuries which were not considered to be serious.
Officers attended KEMH to follow up with the rider’s injuries. While speaking with him, they observed a strong smell of alcohol on his breath and that his eyes were glazed.
He was then arrested for riding whilst impaired.
All suspects have been granted bail and will appear before the courts in due course.
Despite numerous advisories pertaining to stop and search operations, individuals continue to risk arrest by carrying knives without lawful excuse while out in public. Not to mention, operating unregistered vehicles and not having proper documents for operating a motor-vehicle on Bermuda’s roads.
As previously indicated, the stop and search operations are ongoing and we urge you to think carefully about the possible consequences of your actions and not engage in behaviour that could result in your arrest and prosecution.
Photos feature (L-R): Minister Owen Darrell, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Sen. Kim Wilkerson, Minister Stephen Doughty, Premier David Burt, and Governor Andrew Murdoch.
UK Minister of State for the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty and the Premier, the Hon. David Burt, JP, MP, met in Hamilton today and discussed a wide range of policy priorities and areas of mutual collaboration, including security, safeguarding, trade and the environment, and focused in particular on sanctions.
Recognising Bermuda as a global leader in the provision of high quality insurance and reinsurance services, Minister Doughty praised Bermuda’s efforts to implement UK sanctions, including freezing over US$200m of sanctioned assets. Minister Doughty and Premier Burt reaffirmed the importance of robust sanctions implementation and enforcement across the UK family, and both agreed that there should be no safe haven for those seeking to evade or circumvent UK sanctions.
Minister Doughty and Premier Burt expressed their shared desire to enhance UK-Bermuda cooperation on sanctions. Minister Doughty assured Premier Burt of the UK’s commitment to supporting Bermuda; as a sign of that commitment, Minister Doughty and Premier Burt signed a new Memorandum of Understanding, under which the UK will make available up to £300,000 this financial year for new initiatives to enhance Bermudian sanctions capacity and capability.
Minister Doughty and Premier Burt discussed Bermuda’s work to implement a legitimate interest access register of beneficial ownership. UK and Bermuda officials would remain in contact to assess policy proposals as they developed.
Minister Doughty thanked Premier Burt for his territory’s warm welcome and reiterated the firm commitment of the UK Government to the sovereignty, security and defence of Bermuda and all British Overseas Territories.
The town hall takes place this coming Monday, September 29th
Gun and gang violence will be the focus of an upcoming town hall meeting.
Speakers will include Governor Andrew Murdoch, Minister of National Security Michael Weeks and Commissioner of Police Darrin Simons.
The community is encouraged to attend the forum, which will be held at St. Paul AME Church Centennial Hall from 6 pm to 8 pm on Monday, September 29th.
A spokesperson said, “The evening will also include a question-and-answer session, providing members of the public an opportunity to share their concerns, ask questions, and contribute to the discussion on this issue of national importance.”
The Bermuda Police Service encourages all residents to attend.
Both benchmarks gained 2.5% on Wednesday to reach their highest since August 1, driven by a surprise drop in U.S. weekly crude inventories
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Oil prices edged down on Thursday, retreating from the previous session’s seven-week high, as some investors took profits after U.S. stocks closed lower and in anticipation of slower winter demand as well as the return of Kurdish supplies.
Brent futures were down 24 cents, or 0.35%, at $69.07 a barrel by 1010 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures lost 31 cents, or 0.48%, to $64.68.
Both benchmarks gained 2.5% on Wednesday to reach their highest since August 1, driven by a surprise drop in U.S. weekly crude inventories and concerns that Ukraine’s attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure could disrupt supplies.
“We have a generally risk-off market,” said Giovanni Staunovo, commodity analyst at UBS. Two consecutive down days for U.S. equities are putting pressure on oil prices, he added.
Comments by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday about potentially stretched equity valuations further spooked markets, including oil, said Jorge Montepeque at Onyx Capital Group.
Price pressure also came from bearish expectations on supply fundamentals, with more oil expected soon from Iraq and Kurdistan.
“The return of Kurdish supplies adds back fears of an oversupply narrative, propelling a pullback in prices that hover near a seven-week high,” said Priyanka Sachdeva, senior market analyst at Phillip Nova.
Oil flows from Iraqi Kurdistan were expected to resume in days after eight oil companies struck a deal on Wednesday with Iraq’s federal and Kurdish regional governments.
As the peak demand season gradually ends, prices have yet to reflect expectations of mounting oversupply, Haitong Securities said in a report.
Underscoring investor caution over demand, J.P. Morgan analysts noted on Wednesday that U.S. gasoline demand has started to pull back, mirroring broader moderation in travel trends.
Reporting by Anna HirtensteinAdditional reporting by Sam Li and Trixie YapEditing by Mark Potter and David Goodman
Palestine Action has increasingly targeted Israel-linked companies in Britain, often spraying red paint, blocking entrances or damaging equipment
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The British government on Thursday sought to block the co-founder of pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action from bringing a legal challenge over the banning of the group under anti-terrorism laws.
Palestine Action has increasingly targeted Israel-linked companies in Britain, often spraying red paint, blocking entrances or damaging equipment. It accuses Britain’s government of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
The group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in July, making it a crime to be a member, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. More than 1,000 people have since been arrested for holding signs in support of the group.
Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, was in July given permission to challenge the group’s proscription, on the grounds it was arguably a disproportionate interference with the right to freedom of expression.
Britain’s Home Office (interior ministry) is asking the Court of Appeal to overturn that decision and rule that any challenge to proscription should be heard by a specialist tribunal, rather than the High Court.
Palestine Action was proscribed shortly after some of its members broke into the RAF Brize Norton air base and damaged two planes in June, for which four members have been charged.
The group has particularly focused on Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems and Britain’s government cited a raid at an Elbit site last year when it decided to proscribe the group.
Israel has repeatedly denied committing abuses in its war in Gaza, which began after Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The deal was subsequently modified to make the duty rate retroactive to August 1, but European automakers have been waiting for weeks for the formal U.S. notice
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President Donald Trump’s administration said on Wednesday it was formally implementing the U.S. trade agreement with the European Union, confirming that a 15% duty rate for EU autos and auto parts began on August 1 and listing tariff exemptions for generic pharmaceuticals, aircraft and aircraft parts.
In a Federal Register notice, the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said they have amended the tariff schedule to implement the framework agreement reached with the EU in July that lowers the Republican president’s tariffs to 15% on most imports from the EU, including autos.
The deal was subsequently modified to make the duty rate retroactive to August 1, but European automakers have been waiting for weeks for the formal U.S. notice.
The U.S. notice also specifies hundreds of products from the EU that are exempt from Trump’s new tariffs, including natural resources such as cork lacking in the United States, all aircraft and aircraft parts, and generic pharmaceuticals and their ingredients and chemical precursors.
The notice is in line with a previous Trump executive order that offered certain exemptions from his “reciprocal” tariffs and so-called Section 232 national security duties to countries that negotiate trade deals with the United States.
Among items that would be exempted for EU exporters are graphite, nickel, rare earths, magnesium and certain other metals, as well as hundreds of electronic and mechanical components that are used in aircraft production.
For EU autos and auto parts, the tariff rate dropped to 15% from 25% effective August 1, easing anxiety in an industry that had been waiting for the long-delayed confirmation in order to make sourcing decisions.
Shares in German automakers rose following the confirmation, reflecting relief over the formal implementation of a move announced almost two months ago.
Oliver Blume, CEO of Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, had said last week that the actual lowering of U.S. auto import tariffs from August was still subject to talks between the United States and EU, and could take several weeks.
Shares in luxury sportscar maker Porsche , which has no production sites outside Europe, were up about 2.2%, while BMW and Mercedes-Benz rose 1.4% and 1.1%, respectively.
Reporting by David Lawder, additional reporting by Christoph Steitz and David ShepardsonEditing by Marguerita Choy and Will Dunham
The technology known as SURF-A, or Surface-Alert, is the long-awaited addition to runway safety solutions that have been on the market for nearly two decades
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As a Boeing 757 aircraft prepared to land, an audio alert started blaring in the cockpit: “Traffic on runway! Traffic on runway!” Seconds later, the same warning popped up on the navigation display.
It prompted the pilot to abort the landing to avoid a possible collision. The alert was triggered by a smaller Gulfstream jet that was on the runway.
This was not a real-world incident but a staged test flight of Honeywell’s new cockpit safety system designed to prevent incidents like a near-collision between a Southwest Airlines aircraft and a private jet at Chicago’s Midway Airport in February and a crash at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport last year.
The technology known as SURF-A, or Surface-Alert, is the long-awaited addition to runway safety solutions that have been on the market for nearly two decades, but until recently failed to attract many customers.
But with recent high-profile runway incidents creating a new climate of safety concern, pressure is building on aviation authorities to make cockpit alert systems mandatory.
COCKPIT ALERTS SEEN BOOSTING AVIATION SAFETY
Japan has submitted a working paper to the ongoing triennial policy-setting meeting of global aviation leaders, highlighting cockpit alert systems as a crucial safety measure for preventing runway incursions. The paper was drafted in response to the Haneda crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates all civil aviation accidents, has been consistently recommending it.
Southwest, which began using the technology this year, attests to the benefits. The Dallas-based airline has seen a significant improvement in its key safety performance indicators since the system came on board, Southwest’s vice president of safety and security, Dave Hunt, told Reuters.
The U.S. carrier began installing the system in spring and now has it on almost all of its 800 aircraft. “We feel this is a very important and effective layer to prevent runway incursions, runway collisions,” Hunt said.
The International Civil Aviation Organization lists runway collisions or incursions among the top five risks to aviation safety. Runways were involved in 42% of accidents worldwide between 2019 and 2023, the ICAO, a United Nations agency, said.
The Federal Aviation Administration recorded almost five incursions or incorrect movements of planes or other objects per day in the fiscal year 2024.
‘ANOTHER LAYER OF PROTECTION’
The SURF-A technology uses GPS, automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data, and advanced analytics to identify other aircraft on or near the runway that could cause a collision within the next 30 seconds.
Unlike systems that alert only air-traffic control, it provides aural and visual alerts directly to pilots in the cockpit. Based on the flight test results, Honeywell expects the FAA to approve the technology next year.
“It’s another layer of protection,” said Honeywell senior test pilot Kirk Vining. “It gives us more margin for safety.”
Airbus and Boeing are also working on runway-safety alerts for their aircraft. Cam Morast, lead product manager at avionics safety company Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, said his company is testing a surface alert technology, which will be available as a standard feature on new Airbus aircraft starting in 2028.
An FAA panel last year recommended requiring cockpit alert systems for newly manufactured aircraft. While the panel failed to reach a consensus on a retrofit mandate, it urged aircraft operators to make every effort to install the technology on their aircraft. It noted that safety was improved when aircraft were equipped with capabilities providing alerts to the flight crew.
Yet, doubts remain over how many airlines would be willing to invest in solutions like SURF-A without a regulatory mandate.
Safety experts say the system’s effectiveness relies on broad implementation across an airline’s fleet, which involves retrofitting older aircraft, maintenance planning, training for pilots and regulatory approval. It entails significant costs for carriers.
“It’s easier with the new fleet,” said Hassan Shahidi, chief executive at safety group Flight Safety Foundation. “Retrofitting the existing fleet is very challenging.”
COST CONCERNS SLOW ADOPTION RATE
The costs and efforts involved in upgrading safety features stymied the adoption of Honeywell’s previous runway safety solutions. In 2012, it launched smartRunway and smartLanding technology, known as Smart-X, to boost situational awareness of pilots during taxi, take-off and landing.
The technology was designed to prevent incidents such as the one in 2017 when an Air Canada flight mistakenly lined up to land on a taxiway instead of the assigned runway at San Francisco International Airport, nearly colliding with four other aircraft waiting to take off.
But Honeywell said that thus far, only 20 carriers including Alaska Air, Air Canada, Southwest and Emirates, are using it.
Honeywell is recommending customers to equip their aircraft with both SURF-A and Smart-X for comprehensive runway safety. That will likely double the costs for airlines as Thea Feyereisen, a senior aerospace engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, said SURF-A will have a similar price tag as Smart-X – in the tens of thousands of dollars per aircraft.
But Feyereisen argued that it would still be a cost-effective solution compared with expensive airport infrastructure upgrades. She estimated both the systems would cost airlines less than a penny per passenger.
“Confidence in our system is eroding,” she said. “If people are afraid to fly, that’s not good for (airline) business.”
Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh in Chicago; Additional reporting by Tim Hepher in Paris; Editing by Matthew Lewis
The Confederation of British Industry’s monthly gauge of how retail sales compared with a year earlier fell to -29 in September from -32 in August
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British retailers reported a 12th straight month of falling sales in September and they expect another decline in October as weaker consumer demand and concerns about the government’s next budget weigh, a survey showed on Thursday.
The Confederation of British Industry’s monthly gauge of how retail sales compared with a year earlier fell to -29 in September from -32 in August.
The CBI’s gauge of expected sales for October fell sharply to -36 from -16, the lowest since July.
“Weak demand continues to weigh on sales, while US tariffs are adding pressure for some retailers. Lacklustre economic conditions are also affecting the wider distribution sector,” CBI principal economist Martin Sartorius said.
“As we approach the autumn budget, retailers and other distribution firms will want the Chancellor to deliver certainty and restore confidence to businesses and consumers alike.”
Sartorius said April’s increase in social security contributions for employers and the rise in the minimum wage, also ordered by finance minister Rachel Reeves in her first budget, were continuing to hit the sector.
Retailers and other businesses are concerned about possible further tax rises in Reeves’ November 26 budget.
Official data last week showed stronger-than-expected retail sales in August. But consumer confidence weakened this month as concerns about the economy mounted.
Reporting by Suban AbdullaEditing by William Schomberg
Ragasa brought the densely populated city to a standstill from Tuesday afternoon, after sweeping through the northern Philippines and Taiwan where it killed 14
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Hong Kong resumed flights out of its international airport on Thursday after a 36-hour suspension, reopening businesses, transportation services and some schools after the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year lashed the financial hub.
Ragasa brought the densely populated city to a standstill from Tuesday afternoon, after sweeping through the northern Philippines and Taiwan where it killed 14, before making landfall on the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday.
More than 100 people were injured in Hong Kong, where authorities imposed the highest typhoon signal 10 for most of Wednesday.
On Thursday, the observatory maintained its second-lowest typhoon signal 3, keeping kindergartens and some schools shut as Ragasa moved away from the city and weakened into a tropical storm.
Huge waves crashed over areas of Hong Kong’s eastern and southern shoreline on Wednesday, with widespread flooding submerging some roads and residential properties.
Seawater surged through the Fullerton hotel on the island’s south, shattering glass doors and inundating the lobby. No injuries were reported and the hotel said services were operating as normal.
Hong Kong’s Airport Authority said airlines would gradually resume flights starting from 6 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Thursday, with all three runways operating simultaneously.
“It is anticipated that flights will be scheduled until late into late night tomorrow, handling over 1,000 flights at the normal level,” it said, adding that it expected airport operations to be busy on Thursday and Friday.
Authorities said they were urgently repairing collapsed roads, trying to clear more than 1,000 fallen trees and respond to around 85 cases of flooding.
Prior to Ragasa’s arrival authorities handed out sandbags on Monday for residents to bolster their homes in low-lying areas, while many people stockpiled daily necessities, leading to bare supermarket shelves and surging fresh vegetable prices.
Reporting by Farah Master; Editing by Stephen Coates
The central bank is using increasingly its short-term repo operations as a way to provide banks with reserves
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The Bank of England on Thursday allotted a record 87.149 billion pounds ($117.19 billion) in seven-day funds in its weekly short-term repo operation, higher than a previous record of 83.085 billion pounds set two weeks ago.
The central bank is using increasingly its short-term repo operations as a way to provide banks with reserves as it runs down its stockpile of government bonds bought under its quantitative easing programme.
($1 = 0.7437 pounds)
Writing by William Schomberg, Editing by Paul Sandle
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