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The Island’s waste recycling service will continue “as far as we know”, according to Waste Management’s education and enforcement officer, Vanese Gordon. But recycling is doomed to remain a money-losing enterprise, especially for an Island jurisdicti...

Bus drivers, faced with a proposal to cut down on their overtime, fear that such reductions are being considered “across the whole of Government”. Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, made the remark after a meeting of unionised ...

Taking pictures within the walls of Parliament is against the law, Speaker of the House Randy Horton said yesterday, after telling legislators he had spotted a photo online that had been taken from the gallery. Mr Horton was referring to a shot circu...

A drastic overrun on the allocated budget for overtime in public transport has led to the severe disruption in bus routes, according to Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert. A group of unionised drivers and mechanics met for nearly two ho...

For Tash Pethick, this Friday’s cancer fundraiser for St Baldrick’s carries a sense of personal mission. Ms Pethick has already raised nearly $10,000 for the St Baldrick’s charity cause — inspired by a close friend’s battle with stage two breast canc...

Government’s pension fund for civil servants remains under review, but its cost of living adjustment, suspended last year, will stay off the table “until further notice”. Presenting the actuarial report into the Public Service Superannuation Fund (PS...

Elderly patients are being abandoned at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, causing a shortage of beds that has led to the postponement of surgeries, Health Minister Jeanne Atherden told the House of Assembly. “Our hospital is being used as a residenc...

The decision to bypass war veterans and pay their pensions directly to nursing homes has been faulted as a cutback targeting an especially undeserving group. Carol Everson, a welfare case worker for the Bermuda Legion, conceded that reductions might ...

Bermuda’s failure to meet its own goals for spending cuts is “unfortunate” and “will not play out well with rating agencies and our creditors”, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development. Under the middle-term expenditure frame...

Some of Bermuda’s dwindling population of war veterans will see a change in their pensions, starting next month, as their cheques are applied to care expenses. According to the Bermuda Legion, just over 200 veterans in the Island have been receiving ...