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(VIDEO) More than 200 prisoners break out of Pakistani jail after earthquake panic, says official

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(VIDEO) More than 200 prisoners break out of Pakistani jail after earthquake panic, says official

Police said the prisoners snatched guns from prison staff and forced open the main gate

Paramilitary soldiers stand outside the district Malir jail after dozens of prisoners escaped from the jail on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, June 3, 2025. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

International news via Reuters:

More than 200 inmates escaped from a jail in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late on Monday when they overpowered prison guards after being allowed to leave their cells following a series of earthquakes, local officials and police said.

The jailbreak began just before midnight and continued into the early hours of Tuesday after hundreds of prisoners were allowed into the courtyard of the District Malir prison because of the tremors, Zia-ul-Hasan Lanjar, the provincial law minister, told reporters at the scene on Tuesday.

Police said the prisoners snatched guns from prison staff and forced open the main gate after a shootout, evading paramilitary soldiers. At least one prisoner was killed and three guards wounded, said Provincial Police Chief Ghulam Nabi Memon. 

“I heard the firing for quite some time and then some time later prisoners made their way out running in all directions,” Bukhsh, a private security guard at a residential complex opposite the jail who goes by a single name, told Reuters. 

He added that some of the prisoners entered the apartment complex before being taken away by police.

On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter who visited the prison saw shattered glass and damaged electronic equipment. A meeting room, for prisoners to see their families, had been ransacked. Anxious family members had gathered outside. 

The jailbreak was one of the largest ever in Pakistan, Lanjar said. The prison, which houses 6,000 inmates, is in the Malir district of Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city. 

Prisoners ran through the area throughout the night, some of them barefoot, with police giving chase, local TV footage showed. About 80 of those who escaped had been caught, said Murad Ali Shah, the provincial chief minister.

The jail’s superintendent, Arshad Shah, told reporters that there were 28 prison guards on duty at night, and that “only a few of such a large number of prisoners escaped”. He said the prison did not have security cameras. 

Officials said the inmates, many of them heroin users, had been unnerved by the earthquakes. 

“There was panic here because of earthquake tremors,” said Lanjar.

The provincial chief minister said it was a mistake for prison authorities to have allowed the prisoners to leave their cells. He urged the inmates still at large to hand themselves in, or face a serious charge for breaking out. 

“Petty crime charges will become a big case like terrorism,” Shah said. 

Reporting by Ariba Shahid in Karachi and Asif Shahzad in Islamabad; Writing by Saeed Shah; Editing by Tom Hogue, Michael Perry and Kate Mayberry

Klarna trials debit card in US, plans Europe launch later this year

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Klarna trials debit card in US, plans Europe launch later this year

Klarna in April paused its plans for a U.S. initial public offering for the second time

FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured at the entrance of Klarna’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden on May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Supantha Mukherjee/File Photo

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Swedish fintech Klarna on Tuesday said on Monday it is doing a pilot launch of a new debit card in the United States as the buy now, pay later pioneer seeks to compete more directly with traditional banks.

With a partnership with Visa, Klarna will allow consumers to pay immediately or choose interest-free options to pay over time for both online and in-store purchases.

Klarna in April paused its plans for a U.S. initial public offering for the second time in the last few years as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs rattled global markets.

The company, which has over 100 million global active users, is currently trialling the debit card in the U.S. before a broader rollout in the U.S. and Europe later this year. 

Banks are the primary institutions in the U.S. to issue debit cards where a customer can use their own funds to purchase goods instead of going into debt as offered by credit cards.

As Klarna doesn’t have a banking license in the U.S., the debit card and the balance account will be issued by Utah-based WebBank.

The physical card will come in aubergine, black and bright green colours with a choice between one free, and two paid tiers for different discounts and cashback rates.

Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm, editing by Terje Solsvik

Police combing ‘vast’ area of Portugal’s Algarve in Madeleine McCann case

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Police combing ‘vast’ area of Portugal’s Algarve in Madeleine McCann case

Madeleine went missing on the 3rd of May 2007 while on holiday with her family

Police officers move a barrier blocking a road as they resume the search for the body of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in the Portuguese Algarve in May 2007, in Atalaia, Portugal, June 3, 2025. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

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Portuguese and German police on Tuesday launched joint searches of a “vast” area in Portugal’s southern Algarve region for new evidence related to the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old British child Madeleine McCann.

Portugal’s investigative Judicial Police (PJ) had said on Monday they would execute search warrants between June 2 and 6 at the behest of the public prosecutor’s office in Germany’s Braunschweig, which in 2022 formally identified German national Christian Brueckner as an official suspect in the case.

A source involved in the search operation said the targeted area was “vast” with police using ground-penetrating radar across several hectares. Portuguese officers were following instructions from German police under a European Investigation Order. 

The scale of the searches could be the most extensive since the initial investigation was closed in 2008. 

Fresh but relatively focused searches were ordered by Portuguese, British and German police of scrubland, wells and reservoirs in 2014, 2020 and 2023. None of these searches were confirmed to have yielded significant evidence.  

Reuters footage showed uniformed PJ officers on a cordon on a dirt road in Atalaia – a neighbourhood of Lagos municipality – waving through unmarked vans and cars with German license plates from the city of Wiesbaden, where the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has its headquarters. 

The BKA is assisting Portuguese law enforcement with “criminal procedural measures”, Braunschweig prosecutors told Reuters, declining to provide further details. 

The occupants of one of the German vehicles wore bucket hats, clothing with camouflage patterns and covered their faces with bandanas. 

A van belonging to Portugal’s Maritime Police also arrived. That force has jurisdiction over coastal areas and took part in previous searches of beaches, wells and reservoirs using specialist divers. 

The road the police cordoned off is located close to a golf course and less than 1 km (0.6 miles) from the beach. The search area was close to a property that Brueckner lived in, a neighbour told Reuters in 2020, though when was unclear. 

Madeleine went missing on May 3, 2007, while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz, sparking a frenzied search and gaining the attention of the world’s media. She has never been found.

German police said in June 2020 that Madeleine was assumed dead and Brueckner, in his 40s, was probably responsible. He has denied responsibility.

Brueckner, a convicted child abuser and drug dealer, is behind bars in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same area of the Algarve. His sentence runs until September, meaning he is set for release unless prosecutors find enough evidence to charge him over Madeleine’s disappearance.

On Jan. 17 Sky News quoted the German prosecutor investigating Madeleine’s disappearance as saying there was currently no prospect of charges being brought against Brueckner.

Reporting by Miguel Pereira and Pedro Nunes in Lagos, Sergio Goncalves in Lisbon, Kirsti Knolle and Rachel More in Berlin; Writing by David Latona; editing by Aislinn Laing and Mark Heinrich

(VIDEO) OECD lowers global outlook as Trump trade war hits US growth

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(VIDEO) OECD lowers global outlook as Trump trade war hits US growth

The global economy is on course to slow from 3.3% last year to 2.9% in 2025 and 2026

OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann and MCM members pose for a family photo after the opening ceremony of the 2025 Ministerial Council Meeting at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, France, June 3, 2025. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

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Global economic growth is slowing more than expected only a few months ago as the fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war takes a bigger toll on the U.S. economy, the OECD said on Tuesday, revising down its outlook.

The global economy is on course to slow from 3.3% last year to 2.9% in 2025 and 2026, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said, trimming its estimates from March for growth of 3.1% this year and 3.0% next year.

But the growth outlook would likely be even weaker if protectionism increases, further fuelling inflation, disrupting supply chains and rattling financial markets, the Paris-based organisation said in its latest Economic Outlook.

“Additional increases in trade barriers or prolonged policy uncertainty would further lower growth prospects and likely push inflation higher in countries imposing tariffs,” OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann said as he presented the report.

If Washington raised bilateral tariffs by an additional 10 percentage points on all countries as compared with the rates in force as of mid-May, global economic output would be about 0.3% lower after two years, Cormann added.

“The key policy priorities in this context are constructive dialogue to ensure a lasting resolution to current trade tensions,” Cormann said.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements since he took office in January have already roiled financial markets and fuelled global economic uncertainty, forcing him to walk back some of his initial stances.

Last month, the U.S. and China agreed to a temporary truce to scale back tariffs, while Trump also postponed 50% duties on the European Union until July 9.

The OECD forecast the U.S. economy would grow only 1.6% this year and 1.5% next year, assuming for the purpose of making calculations that tariffs in place mid-May would remain so through the rest of 2025 and 2026.

For 2025, the new forecast marked a sizeable cut as the organisation had previously expected the world’s biggest economy would grow 2.2% this year and 1.6% next year.

While new tariffs may create incentives to manufacture in the United States, higher import prices would squeeze consumers’ purchasing power and economic policy uncertainty would hold back corporate investment, the OECD warned.

Meanwhile, the higher tariff receipts would only partly offset revenues lost due to the extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, new tax cuts and weaker economic growth, it added. 

Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill was expected to push the U.S. budget deficit to 8% of economic output by 2026, among the biggest fiscal shortfalls for a developed economy not at war.

As tariffs fuel inflation pressures, the Federal Reserve was seen keeping rates on hold through this year and then cutting the fed funds rate to 3.25-3.5% by the end of 2026.

In China, the fallout from the U.S. tariff hikes would be partly offset by government subsidies for a trade-in programme on consumer goods like mobile phones and appliances and increased welfare transfers, the OECD said.

It estimated the world’s second-biggest economy, which is not an OECD member, would grow 4.7% this year and 4.3% in 2026, little changed from previous forecasts for 4.8% in 2025 and 4.4% in 2026.

The outlook for the euro area was unchanged from March with growth forecast this year at 1.0% and 1.2% next year, boosted by resilient labour markets and interest rate cuts while more public spending from Germany would buoy 2026 growth.

Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Susan Fenton

Tourists told to heed warnings after Etna eruption

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Tourists told to heed warnings after Etna eruption

Dozens of hikers had ventured on to Etna despite a warning issued early on Monday morning

Volcanic steam rises from Mount Etna, as seen from Milo, Italy, June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Restivo/ File Photo

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Tourists have been told to check for warnings before climbing towards the summit of Italy’s Mount Etna after an eruption sent hikers scurrying for safety.

Video footage from Monday’s eruption showed dozens of people hurrying down a path as a large plume of ash rose behind them from the volcano on the eastern side of the island of Sicily.

Salvo Cocina, the head of Sicily’s Civil Protection Department, said dozens of hikers had ventured on to Etna despite a warning issued early on Monday morning after initial signs of increased activity on Europe’s largest active volcano.

“There was a big explosion and a crater collapsed but luckily it fell into a deserted area,” he told Reuters on Tuesday.

“It’s very hard to block access, you can’t fence it off,” he added.

Cocina said those on the mountain on Monday, who had climbed to a height of some 2,700 metres, appeared to be properly equipped and he acknowledged the need to balance safety concerns with the desire of tourists to enjoy the views.

Nobody was injured in Monday’s eruption and the alert for volcanic activity had been downgraded to the more standard “yellow” level on Tuesday.

Writing by Keith Weir; Editing by Alexandra Hudson

Trump asked Japan to help with Golden Dome missile shield, Nikkei reports

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Trump asked Japan to help with Golden Dome missile shield, Nikkei reports

The two countries are expected to work together on systems to intercept incoming threats

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the new U.S. ambassador to China, former U.S. Senator David Perdue, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

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U.S. President Donald Trump discussed cooperating with Japan on developing technology for his planned Golden Dome missile defence shield during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba this month, the Nikkei reported.

The two countries are expected to work together on systems to intercept incoming threats, and Tokyo’s participation could serve as a bargaining chip for it to win concessions in ongoing tariff negotiations with Washington, the paper said, without citing its sources.

Trump this month said he had selected a design for the planned $175 billion defence shield and appointed U.S. Space Force General Michael Guetlein to head the project, which he wants to complete by the end of his term in 2029. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Golden Dome could cost $831 billion over two decades.

Japan and the U.S. have previously collaborated on ballistic missile defence, including the joint development of an interceptor capable of striking warheads in space.

Reporting by Tim KellyEditing by Alexandra Hudson

Exclusive-FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

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Exclusive-FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security called the comment ‘a joke’

A resident cleans his home covered in mud, following the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Swannanoa, North Carolina, U.S., October 7, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

International news via Reuters:

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation. 

The remark was made during a briefing by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May. It was not clear to staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context.

The U.S. hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year’s season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA’s parent agency, said the comment was a joke and that FEMA is prepared for hurricane season.

The spokesperson said under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Richardson “FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens.”

Richardson said during the briefing that there would be no changes to the agency’s disaster response plans despite having told staff to expect a new plan in May, the sources told Reuters.

Richardson’s comments come amid widespread concern that the departures of a raft of top FEMA officials, staff cuts and reductions in hurricane preparations will leave the agency ill-prepared for a storm season forecast to be above normal. 

Democrats criticized Richardson following the Reuters report.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer posted the Reuters headline about Richardson on X and said he was “unaware of why he hasn’t been fired yet.”

Representative Bennie Thompson, the senior Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee with oversight of FEMA, issued a statement to Reuters that read: 

“Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke. If you don’t know what or when hurricane season is, you’re not qualified to run FEMA. Get someone knowledgeable in there.”

Hurricanes kill dozens of people and cost hundreds of millions of dollars annually across a swath of U.S. states every year. The storms have become increasingly more destructive and costly due to the effects of climate change.

Richardson’s comment purporting ignorance about hurricane season spread among agency staff, spurring confusion and reigniting concern about his lack of familiarity with FEMA’s operations, said three sources.

Richardson, who has no disaster response experience, said during Monday’s briefing, a daily all-hands meeting held by phone and videoconference, that he will not be issuing a new disaster plan because he does not want to make changes that might counter the FEMA Review Council, the sources said.

President Donald Trump created the council to evaluate FEMA. Its members include DHS head Noem, governors and other officials.

In a May 15 staff town hall, Richardson said a disaster plan, including tabletop exercises, would be ready for review by May 23. 

CONFUSION

The back-and-forth on updating the disaster plan and a lack of clear strategic guidance have created confusion for FEMA staff, said one source. 

Richardson has evoked his military experience as a former Marine artillery officer in conversations with staff.

Before joining FEMA, he was assistant secretary at DHS’ office for countering weapons of mass destruction, which he has told staff he will continue to lead.

Richardson was appointed as the new chief of FEMA last month after his predecessor, Cameron Hamilton, was abruptly fired.

Hamilton had publicly broken with Trump over the future of the agency, but sources told Reuters that Trump allies had already been maneuvering to oust him because they were unhappy with what they saw as Hamilton’s slow-moving effort to restructure FEMA.

Trump has said FEMA should be shrunk or even eliminated, arguing states can take on many of its functions, as part of a wider downsizing of the federal government. About 2,000 full-time FEMA staff, one-third of its total, have been terminated or voluntarily left the agency since the start of the Trump administration in January. 

Despite Noem’s prior comments that she plans to eliminate FEMA, in May she approved Richardson’s request to retain more than 2,600 short-term disaster response and recovery employees whose terms were set to expire this year, one of the sources said, confirming an earlier report by NBC News.

Those short-term staff make up the highest proportion of FEMA employees, about 40%, and are a pillar of the agency’s on-the-ground response efforts.

FEMA recently sharply reduced hurricane training and workshops for state and local emergency managers due to travel and speaking restrictions imposed on staff, according to prior Reuters reporting.  

Reporting by Leah Douglas and Ted Hesson in Washington, Nathan Layne in North Carolina; Editing by Ross Colvin, Bill Berkrot and Lincoln Feast.

Spain reports fewer than 2.5 million jobless for first time since 2008

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Spain reports fewer than 2.5 million jobless for first time since 2008

A total of 2.45 million people were registered as unemployed

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the skyline over Madrid, Spain, June 13, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/ File Photo

International news via Reuters:

The number of people registered as unemployed in Spain fell in May below 2.5 million for the first time since the cusp of the financial crisis almost 17 years ago, data from the Labour Ministry showed on Tuesday.

A total of 2.45 million people were registered as unemployed, down by 57,835 from the previous month. Spain last had fewer than 2.5 million jobless people in July 2008, before the brunt of the global crisis which was exacerbated in Spain by the bursting of a real estate bubble.

“Only once have we been slightly below that level in Spain, and that’s our objective for the country,” Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz said in an interview with state broadcaster RNE.

Unemployment traditionally falls in Spain during the summer when the hospitality industry hires thousands of workers to serve the millions of tourists who visit the country.

Spain gained more than 190,000 net formal jobs in May, bringing the number of people with a formal job to 21.8 million, the highest level ever, a separate report from the Social Security Ministry showed.

Reporting by Marta Serafinko in Gdansk and Javi West Larrañaga in MadridEditing by Inti Landauro and Peter Graff

Dutch government on brink of collapse after Wilders’ far-right party quits

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Dutch government on brink of collapse after Wilders’ far-right party quits

Wilders’ coalition partners responded with disbelief and anger to his decision

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders speaks as Spanish far-right party VOX holds rally with other European far-right leaders in Madrid, Spain, February 8, 2025. REUTERS/Ana Beltran/File Photo

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Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders’ PVV party left the governing coalition on Tuesday, in a move that is set to topple the right wing government and likely lead to new elections.

A possible snap election would come as the hard right is growing in Europe, with anger over migration and the cost of living at risk of eroding Europe’s unity over how to deal with Russia and with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Wilders said his party was pulling out because the other three coalition partners were not willing to support his ideas on asylum and immigration.

“No signature under our asylum plans. The PVV leaves the coalition,” Wilders said in a post on X.

Wilders said he had informed Prime Minister Dick Schoof that all ministers from his PVV party would quit the government. Schoof has not yet reacted publicly, but called an emergency cabinet meeting, which began at around 1:30 p.m. (1130 GMT).

Wilders’ surprise move ends a fragile coalition which has struggled to reach consensus since its installation last July.

The prospect of a new election adds to political uncertainty in the Netherlands. 

It would likely delay a decision on boosting defense spending to meet new NATO targets, and would leave the Netherlands with only a caretaker government when it receives world leaders for a NATO summit later this month.

Elsewhere in Europe, nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s presidential election on Sunday, while the Czech Republic’s eurosceptic opposition leader Andrej Babis leads opinion polls before an October election.

In Romania, however, the centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the presidential vote last month, in a shock upset over his hard-right, nationalist rival.

DISBELIEF 

Wilders’ coalition partners responded with disbelief and anger to his decision.

“There is a war on our continent. Instead of meeting the challenge, Wilders is showing he is not willing to take responsibility,” said the leader of the conservative VVD party, Dilan Yesilgoz. 

“It is irresponsible to take down the government at this point,” centrist NSC party leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven said. 

The others parties now have the option to try and proceed as a minority government, though they are not expected to.

Opposition parties on Tuesday called for new elections.

“I see no other way to form a stable government,” said Frans Timmermans, the leader of the Labour/Green combination.

VVD’s Yesilgoz said she did not want to exclude any options. Junior coalition party BBB leader Caroline van der Plas said: “This coalition is done. But maybe other parties see a way forward.”

DIVIDED

In the streets of Amsterdam, voters were divided over what they hope a fresh vote could bring.

A new election seemed logical, said resident Michelle ten Berge, who hoped “that with the new elections we will choose … a government that’s more moderate.”

But florist Ron van den Hoogenband hoped Wilders would emerge the winner and control parliament “so he can do like Trump is doing and other European countries where the extreme right is taking over.” 

Wilders won the most recent election in November 2023 with a surprisingly wide margin of 23% of the vote.

Polls put his party at around 20% of the vote now, on par roughly with the Labour/Green combination that is currently the second-largest in parliament.

Wilders had last week demanded immediate support for a ten-point plan that included closing the borders for asylum seekers, sending refugees from Syria back to their home country and shutting down asylum shelters.

Other ideas were to expel migrants convicted of serious crimes and to boost border controls.

Migration has been a divisive issue in Dutch politics for years. The previous government, led by current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, also collapsed after failing to reach a deal on restricting immigration in 2023, triggering the election won by Wilders. 

Wilders, who was convicted for discrimination against Moroccans in 2016, was not part of the latest government himself as its leader or a minister.

He only managed to strike a coalition deal with three other conservative parties last year after he failed to garner coalition support to become prime minister.

Instead, the cabinet was led by the independent and unelected Schoof, a career bureaucrat.

Writing by Bart Meijer and Ingrid Melander;Editing by Peter Graff and Bernadette Baum

Monday Sports Round-Up

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Monday Sports Round-Up

Bermuda’s athletes in action both locally and overseas

National records fall in the pool, gritty performances on gravel and a gallop to glory in the equestrian arena

Renovations proposed for old Police Station

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Renovations proposed for old Police Station

BPS vacated the St George’s property in 2012

Photo from the Department of Public Lands and Building

The former St George’s Police Station, vacant for more than a decade, could begin the long process of renovation – if planning permission is granted.

A proposal to replace wooden windows with PVC in timber frames, and to install a new elevator, is currently under review with the Department of Planning.

According to supporting documentation from the Estates Section of the Department of Public Lands and Building, the old Police Station on York Street, St George’s, was vacated by the Bermuda Police Service in 2012, and considered to be unsuitable for occupation.

There have been a number of ideas to repurpose the building, the latest being to facilitate the relocation of the Black Heritage Historic Museum.

However, Kofi Agyakwa-Duodu, Estates Surveyor for Public Lands & Buildings, highlights various issues that needed to be addressed in the property that led to it being vacated, including water ingress causing damp conditions, and termite infestation.

Original windows were removed and boarded up, and PVC windows sashes in Accoya frames have been proposed.

A new elevator is also proposed, but the Historic Buildings Advisory Committee are not supportive of the current plan because it is “unsympathetic towards the southern elevation of the building”.

Jessica Dill, Designate Heritage Officer, said in a letter that the Committee asked if alternative options for accessibility had been considered, such as chair lifts.

Responding to the HBAC letter, Mr Agyakwa-Duodu affirmed that the building is going to be made available for a general public use, with all areas and floors being wheelchair accessible. However, chair lifts would require further construction and structural changes, both externally and internally.

The planning application and related documents can be found at planning.gov.bm.

Bermuda Tonight – 2 June 2025

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Bermuda Tonight – 2 June 2025

In tonight’s news at 7pm…

  • Body found in Sandys Parish – Police treating the death as suspicious
  • Back-and-forth over the Corporate Income Tax
  • Inflation dropped to 1.8% in January, Gov’t reports
  • Two Bermudian university students launch Bermuda Academic Journal
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