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Hotels have been set aside for passengers returning to the island who do not have their own space for mandatory 14-day self-quarantining, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security. Mr Caines told a press conference three flights we...

Family Centre is to move to remote access to help care for its clients despite the Covid-19 crisis. Martha Dismont, the charity’s executive director, said the change, which will start tomorrow, would protect staff as well as those who use its service...

Work permit holders whose children are returning to the island between today and tomorrow should immediately contact the department. The Ministry of National Security advised that the Department of Immigration is liaising with the airlines servicing ...

The Catholic Church suspended Masses yesterday — including funerals — amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Bishop Wieslaw Spiewak said that priests across the island would celebrate Mass alone “for the intentions of the people of his parish” and that committa...

The airport will close to all passenger flights at midnight on Friday for two weeks, the Premier said tonight. David Burt added that “only returning residents will be allowed on flights to Bermuda between tomorrow morning and Friday night”. Non-resid...

Customs officers walked off the job at the airport tonight. It is understood the industrial action came over fears about Covid-19. The island’s first two confirmed cases arrived at LF Wade International on flights from the US and Britain. Wayne Caine...

Immigration legislation to tackle the problem of mixed-status families and to give status to children born overseas to Bermudian parents was approved yesterday. The measures were passed with support from both sides of the House of Assembly — but Oppo...

A tent has been set up at an entrance of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to test the facility’s process for separating patients with possible cases of Covid-19. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said the tented entrance, visible last night ...

Seniors were warned to find ways of distancing themselves, even from loved ones, as the coronavirus pandemic appears to hit elderly patients with health problems worst. Charles Jeffers, the honorary director of Age Concern, said last night that senio...

New legislation empowering the Government to force arriving passengers to self-quarantine will be fast-tracked in the House of Assembly this morning. As Bermuda braced for the coronavirus pandemic, supermarket heads last night advised customers to sh...