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The Attorney-General has asked a judge to dismiss an order from the Information Commissioner to make the Government hand over records related to payments from the public purse to former premier Ewart Brown. The civil case was said in the Supreme Cour...

More than 20,000 Covid-19 antigen tests have been handed out to charities and other organisations last week. The donations came after a joint effort by the Inter Agency Committee for Children, Families and the Community with the Bermuda Foundation. T...

One more case of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been isolated, health officials said last night. The infection was found in a person who arrived on the island from overseas. There have now been two confirmed Omicron cases on the islan...

Schools can again welcome parents and hold assemblies for staff and pupils after Covid-19 precautions were eased yesterday. A Ministry of Education spokeswoman confirmed that public schools had moved to Phase 3 of the Government’s Covid-19 system for...

A plea for the public to give a Christmas gift of protection to others and get vaccinated was made by the Chief Medical Officer yesterday. Ayo Oyinloye warned that the Covid-19 pandemic was not over and that the virus flourished with human contact. H...

The island’s Chief Medical Officer has faced bizarre allegations he was paid by American billionaires to promote vaccination, he said yesterday. Ayo Oyinloye added that – “laughably” – he was most recently linked to Jeff Bezos, the founder of online ...

The first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Bermuda has been confirmed, it was revealed yesterday. Health officials said much remained unknown about the new strain but that the symptoms appeared to be mild, with effects such as fatigu...

Bermuda can now identify new variants of the Covid-19 virus thanks to new technology. Carika Weldon, the director of the Bermuda Molecular Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, said that nanopore sequencing meant the laboratory was able to conduct vira...

Results are expected soon for more than 30 samples from suspected cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant flown overseas for tests. A spokeswoman for the health ministry said a turnaround of a few days was expected on the samples sent to a lab in the U...

Questions abound on the potential threat to public health from the Omicron coronavirus variant, which was identified last month by health officials in South Africa. The new strain was isolated in the port of Durban, the country’s third-largest city. ...