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Government’s Budget deficit is expected to be an “unsustainable” $295 million for the current financial year after the Covid-19 pandemic slashed revenues and sent spending soaring. As a result, Government is considering removing funding for “lower p...

The labour minister said that “efforts are being made” to have the first of the Government’s supplementary unemployment benefits paid out today. Jason Hayward was quizzed yesterday after Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Wednesday that paymen...

Bermuda gained 523 jobs from 2018 to 2019, to a figure of 34,378 working last year. The figures were among the 2020 employment briefs released on Tuesday by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office. The briefs showed job figures climbing, y...

A drama teacher will be centre stage for the Bermuda Union of Teachers for the whole of the new school year. The BUT executive said that Nishanthi Bailey, who teaches at Dellwood Middle School in Pembroke, had become full-time president of the union....

Thousands of Bermudians left jobless by the Covid-19 pandemic will be targeted in a series of back-to-work programmes, the labour minister has vowed. Jason Hayward said a three-pronged strategy of unemployment reduction, prevention of future unemploy...

The Labour Day march by the Bermuda Industrial Union will go ahead despite the pandemic, it was revealed yesterday. But strict social-distancing will be enforced for the traditional event on Monday. The times for the march have also been changed beca...

A drop in communications between the firm running the Hamilton docks and the union representing much of its staff was acknowledged last night by Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union. Warren Jones, the chief executive of Stevedorin...

Dock-workers are working on suspended overtime in protest at cost-cutting measures implemented at Stevedoring Services Limited, which operates the port of Hamilton. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, confirmed yesterday tha...

A potential deal between hotels and unionised staff was rejected by the workers in the unionised hotel division, it was revealed yesterday. Stephen Todd, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hotel Association and the Hotel Employers of Bermuda, confirm...

A businessman and restaurateur has predicted an exodus of lower-skilled overseas workers will continue as the coronavirus pandemic’s economic toll increased. Marico Thomas, who runs Four Star Pizza, Glaze Bakery and Burger Shack, said he had not laid...