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Doctors yesterday joined forces in an impassioned plea to the public to get vaccinated. The Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Association said their “hearts were breaking” at the human cost of the pandemic. The BMDA told the public in an open letter: “You tr...

A prison guard who befriended anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela when he was behind bars for 27 years has delivered a virtual talk at a Bermudian school. Christo Brand, a guard at the maximum security jail on Robben Island, off Cape Town, South Afric...

A stretch of a main commuter road will be closed next week for roadworks. The Ministry of Public Works said that the section of Paget’s Harbour Road would be shut between Highwood Lane and Lover’s Lane next Tuesday. A spokesman said the closure, betw...

The Covid-19 death toll has risen by two to 45, it was revealed last night. There are 58 people in hospital, up four on Monday’s update, with 14 people, an increase of two, in intensive care. The news came as 168 new coronavirus cases were detected a...

Success in one of the few external exams to survive the pandemic lockdown was today celebrated by a private school. Recent graduates from Saltus passed the international Advanced Placement exams, administered by the College Board. The school said 77 ...

A psychiatric nurse has been deployed to Magistrates’ Court and Hamilton Police Station to help people with mental health problems. Geraldine Smith, a retired nurse, has been signed up for the role in a pilot programme organised by the Mid-Atlantic W...

A Portuguese cultural and community centre was opened at the weekend. The Casa dos Açores – House of the Azores – at Admiralty Park in Pembroke, will be a base for the non-profit organisation and charities dedicated to the preservation of Azorean cul...

A woman on a rental scooter was taken to hospital today after her machine was in collision with a truck. A police spokeswoman said the injured woman was taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, but her injuries were not thought to be “life-thr...

The bus and ferry services will not run today amid Covid-19 health and safety fears among unionised staff. A Government spokeswoman said the Department of Marine & Ports had been notified by the Bermuda Industrial Union that staff would strike today....

A private school has shut down because of the Covid-19 crisis after just one day back. Saltus Grammar School said that although its secondary school returned only yesterday, senior pupils would move to remote learning for two weeks from today. Primar...