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Traffic was backed up across the island after police and the Royal Bermuda Regiment carried out spot checks yesterday for people in breach of Covid-19 quarantine rules. Queues of cars formed on East Broadway and Corkscrew Hill as well as at Barnes Co...

The Emergency Measures Organisation heard today that public schools and Government offices were still open and the docks continued to operate despite the Covid-19 threat. But members of the public were asked to limit their social lives to cut the pot...

An Opposition proposal to set up a Cabinet sub-committee to pave the way for an education authority is irrelevant, the education minister has claimed. Diallo Rabain added that another suggestion for the introduction of an assistant director for maths...

A former board chairman at two public schools has defended Bermuda’s education system after economists claimed it had failed children for decades. Leonard Santucci said he feared that Peter Everson and Robert Stewart did not carry out an “objective a...

Women who made bold, life-changing decisions will talk about their experiences this weekend to help other people reinvent themselves. Keema Perry and Jennifer Outerbridge-Smith said the event on Saturday would help guests think about what differences...

Young people who get too old for the island’s care system could soon be supported by a halfway house to help them deal with the move into adulthood. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs: “In the 2020-21 year, a transitional living regi...

Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday. Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...

Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed. Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”. The senior economics lecturer at Ber...