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A free programme to deliver critical medical supplies to diabetics during the Covid-19 lockdown “gives people a sense of hope”, the chairwoman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association said yesterday. Debbie Jones admitted: “It makes you want to cry, how g...

A gift shop set up to cater to the tourist trade has become a victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. Riihiluoma’s Flying Colours on Queen Street, Hamilton, has laid off 11 full-time staff on a temporary basis and closed its doors. The owners of the shop sa...

It is not the job of the Bermuda Government “to step in and bail out retail”, the Minister of Finance said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson was speaking during the annual Budget Breakfast panel discussion hosted by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce. He adde...

The government plan to boost foreign investment by turning the 60:40 rule designed to guarantee Bermudian control of island companies on its head is doomed to failure, a former Premier predicted yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority was “ready to learn more details” of government intentions on its future, the body’s chief executive said yesterday. Kevin Dallas was speaking after the Budget Statement was delivered in the House of Assembly by Curtis D...

Direct employment in Bermuda’s tourism industry rose by more than 200 jobs in 2018, while visitors spent $544 million purchasing tourism products on-island, a report released yesterday revealed. The Tourism Satellite Account Report shows that direct ...

Our Robben Island tour guide, Benjamin, became committed to armed struggle when his pregnant girlfriend was shot through the mouth and killed during the countrywide uprisings against South Africa's apartheid government in 1976. The uprising started o...

When the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was passed by the South African Parliament in 1949, it was the first of some 148 pieces of legislation that were designed to keep the races apart. The Afrikaner-based National Party had come to power a year...