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An “unemployment pandemic” caused by the coronavirus outbreak will prove doubly traumatic for families already living from paycheque to paycheque, according to Sandy De Silva, director of services at the charity Family Centre. Dr De Silva said job lo...

A return to a large-scale “hustle economy” will be one of the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastation of the economy, an employers’ representative has warned. Keith Jensen, the president of the Bermuda Employers Council, said ther...

The Transport Control Department has brought back its call-in service, allowing people without internet access to relicense their vehicles by phone. A spokesman said the option, which was offered just before shelter-in-place restrictions got lifted, ...

Online classes offering “something for everyone” have been created to help small businesses while raising money for charity. The “Sip” series, for shelter-in-place, was organised by Family Centre to help the community learn new skills while staying a...

Shadow finance minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin revisited a bitter dispute in the House of Assembly, saying the official recording had vindicated her after being accused of maligning low earners during a March sitting. In a March 16 debate on the Pay...

Two people were being held by police yesterday over the shooting of a 33-year-old man in Warwick on Friday. Detective Inspector Kenten Trott said items of jewellery had been taken from the victim in the attack. Three men struck at about 5.20pm in a “...

MPs paid their respects yesterday to “trailblazing” Stanley Lowe, a former Speaker of the House of Assembly, who died last month aged 82. Many said the longest-serving MP in modern Bermudian history, known for his fairness as Speaker, had ordered the...

The Swizzle South Shore, which shuttered yesterday, was a casualty of the economic slump left by Covid-19, business owner Jay Correia said. It opened in 2006 on South Road, Warwick, as an offshoot of the popular Swizzle Inn near Bailey’s Bay in Hamil...

Restaurants and the hospitality sector face a bleak future after a long-established bar announced it was to shut up shop because of the coronavirus crisis, owners warned yesterday. Philip Barnett, of the Island Restaurant Group, said: “Until we’re ab...

A supermarket chain has introduced a discount scheme for people on financial assistance to help them weather the fiscal storm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Seth Stutzman, president of The MarketPlace group of companies, said there had been “a lot ...