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The minister says “the entire plan is designed to improve opportunity in Bermuda”

Job categories off-limits to work permit holders have been changed – with a moratorium extended by five months from the beginning of next year until the end of May 2023. “General bartenders” have been moved from the list of restricted jobs to the “cl...

A review of Bermuda’s workforce has been launched by the Department of Statistics. The survey gives an overview of the island’s labour force as well as the economically inactive population. Jason Hayward, the labour and economy minister, said the stu...

The island’s soaring cost of living will be the topic of a series of town hall meetings organised this month by the Bermuda Industrial Union. The move comes in the wake of legislation tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly to eliminate import duti...

Bermuda “cannot afford to have our young persons continue to leave the island and not coming back home”, the labour minister said last night in a review of the island’s national youth unemployment strategy. Repatriation fell under the nine goals of t...

Bermuda’s restaurants urgently require young new staff as a shortage of servers confronts an industry battered by Covid-19 and anxious to welcome back customers. Karl Massam, head of the restaurants division for the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, ackno...

Embattled Chief Fire Officer, Lloyd Burchall, has stepped down from his post, effective immediately, the Ministry of National Security has announced. Assistant Chief Fire Officer Dana Lovell was appointed Acting Fire Chief “with immediate effect”. Mr...

The acting Premier last night defended the holding of a hospitality jobs fair attended by more than 100 people despite a jump in Covid-19 cases. Diallo Rabain, also the Education Minister, said the jobs event was a SafeKey event and individuals witho...

Two veterans of the civil service who died this month were yesterday honoured by the Bermuda Public Services Union. Joseph Christopher, 77, was a former Commissioner of Education and education historian, and Kenneth Richardson, a former Cabinet Secre...