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The head of the firefighters’ union said yesterday that ageing equipment and a lack of staff had helped spark a rejection of government cost-cutting proposals forced by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nakia Pearson, the president of the...

A clampdown on unscrupulous employers who fail to foot the bill for overseas workers who returned home was signalled by the labour minister at the weekend. Jason Hayward reminded company owners that they were obliged to pay for tickets home for peopl...

A 60-year-old man was found with “multiple” stab wounds on a Hamilton street yesterday. The injured man was found on Union Street at about 10am. A police spokesman said the man was taken to hospital by car for treatment, but that his injuries were n...

A series of fake social-media advertisements is circulating claiming to link Wayne Caines, a government MP, to fraudulent investment opportunities. A government spokeswoman “strongly urged” the public to ignore them, and report them to the social me...

Police officers claimed yesterday that the Government had “repeatedly moved the goalposts” in its cost-cutting negotiations with their representative body. Inspector Emmerson Carrington, the chairman of the Bermuda Police Association, defended the se...

Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today. Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...

The worst-case model for a year of Covid-19 was updated last night — with lower numbers of deaths than estimated at the start of the pandemic. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the new model suggested, at worst, a possible 1,600 in hospital and 2...

Organisers of an event to mark Bermuda’s milestone first gay Pride march almost a year ago are unsure if a commemoration planned for this weekend will go ahead. Thousands took to the streets of Hamilton on August 31 last year in an unprecedented show...

Ageing smokestacks at the Belco power station that were blamed for pollution are to be shut down by the end of the year, the company revealed yesterday. Belco said the decommissioning should cut down on discharges that have blighted the lives of neig...

A permanent Covid-19 testing site for travellers opened in Hamilton yesterday at the Perot Post Office on Queen Street. The announcement by Kim Wilson, the health minister, came as 734 new test results for coronavirus came back clear. Ms Wilson thank...