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Veterans of the 1981 General Strike were applauded yesterday outside the former headquarters of the Bermuda Industrial Union. A small crowd gathered to commemorate the landmark event 40 years on. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, read a declaration o...

Bus and ferry passes can be exchanged for different months over the next few days, the transport ministry said today. Officials decided to extend public transport passes for April to the end of May to make up for service disruptions caused by health ...

“Bermudian resilience” is the theme of Heritage Month as the island’s culture and heritage is scheduled to get a virtual showcase for the second year in a row. The traditional May Bermuda Day Parade will not go ahead as usual because of pandemic rest...

The historic 1981 General Strike that changed the island’s political direction and a tourism economy that was the envy of other destinations started 40 years ago today. The island’s biggest labour dispute in its history capped a decade of social unre...

A total of five new coronavirus cases have been logged, the health ministry said tonight. The cases were among 447 test results that came back to health officials today – a positivity rate of 1.1 per cent. The five cases were all recorded as on-islan...

A civil servant helped broker a deal in the island’s worst industrial relations stalemate, trade unionists said yesterday. They said the “tireless” work of Kenneth Richardson, who was Permanent Secretary at the labour and home affairs ministry at the...

Activists will livestream a commemoration today to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1981 General Strike. Glenn Fubler, a community activist and founder of Imagine Bermuda, said it was a celebration of “the largest peaceful protest in our history”. Th...

A Bermudian actor will graduate next week armed with a scholarship and an award for excellence in theatre. Lyon Hamill, 22, said the recognition gave him “a jolt of confidence as I set my sights on my next move to New York City, where I will try to e...

A man arrested after an arson attack at a charity is also being investigated in connection with a string of suspicious fires that has plagued the area, police said yesterday. The arrest was helped by a network of cameras provided by security firms to...

The island’s death toll from Covid-19 has reached 30, the health minister announced last night. Kim Wilson offered her condolences to the family of the victim as the island marked the second death from the disease inside three days. The news was anno...