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Legislation to give businesses more time before they have to make laid-off staff redundant will be debated in the House of Assembly today. The Employment Amendment Act 2020 will maintain the requirement for employees laid off for more than four month...

About 4,500 people who were on emergency unemployment benefits have returned to work, the Minister of Finance said last night. Curtis Dickinson said that the scheme has put about $43 million in the hands of 10,100 unemployed people since it started, ...

A wave of mental health problems in families will sink Bermuda if action is not taken, the freshly retired head of a major charity warned yesterday. Martha Dismont, who stepped down as executive director of Family Centre on Tuesday after 30 years, sa...

The Government has a lot of work to do to get unemployed Bermudians back to work, the labour minister said last night. Jason Hayward said in an online question-and-answer session yesterday that he believed the island’s economic recovery was still mor...

The Government received 106 Covid-19 test results yesterday — none of which were positive. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said the island still has only two active cases of the virus, with one patient in hospital and the second under active...

Struggling bars and restaurants will be able to apply for payroll tax relief, the Minister of Finance announced yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that for the quarter scheduled to end tomorrow, payroll tax would be rated zero for the employer and empl...

Strict health precautions will be introduced to protect the island from Covid-19 as Bermuda prepares to reopen to visitors, the Premier said last night. David Burt said that the Government had to strike a balance between the economy and safety as Ber...

The woman who has led Family Centre since it started is to step down today as the charity celebrates its 30th anniversary. Martha Dismont, who will hand over to new executive director Sandy DeSilva, said the organisation had been a labour of love. Ms...

Public Covid-19 testing scheduled to take place in Warwick this afternoon has been cancelled. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said “pop-up” testing was supposed to take place at the Heron Bay MarketPlace, but it has been scrapped because of ...

An injured falcon nursed back to health last year has decided to stay in Bermuda, zoologists have revealed. A tracker device has shown the peregrine falcon, christened Milly after she was found weak an underweight last November, and which was release...