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An official suffered verbal abuse from some parents when children were being screened to attend schools, a testing coordinator told senior civil servants. Tarik Bean-Darrell urged the Department of Education to address the problem when it emerged las...

The head of a private school and its chairwoman last night appealed for a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for children and warned that the education system was close to breaking point. Linda Parker, the head teacher at BHS, and Celia Powell, the ...

Charity fundraisers who “braved the shave” in aid of childhood cancer research have so far raised more than $40,000. Fundraising efforts for the annual St Baldrick’s Day event, where participants cut or completely shave their heads to raise cash, wer...

The number of Covid-19 cases jumped to 312 yesterday, an increase of 41 or 15 per cent since last Thursday

Bermuda recorded another Covid-19 fatality tonight, pushing the death toll up to 126. The grim news came as Kim Wilson, the health minister, warned that coronavirus infections were outpacing recoveries as the number of active cases hit 271 — up from ...

A last call went out today for people to put their best foot forward for a charity walk to raise funds for the fight against diabetes. The Walk to ‘Defeet’ Diabetes, held every year, will be in a virtual format and participants were asked to walk, j...

The Ministry of Health launched its Bermuda Health Strategy 2022–2027 last month in a bid to make sure that everyone has access to essential, quality health services without suffering financial hardship. FIONA McWHIRTER takes a look at some of th...

The Government’s new quarantine policy for close and casual contacts in schools is “overly complex, discriminatory and coercive”, a parents’ pressure group has claimed. A spokeswoman for Us For Them Bermuda said: “Rather than a pragmatic policy on ho...

At least three classes at a private school were quarantined yesterday after a coronavirus outbreak. A Year 3 and two Year 4 classes were ordered to isolate at Saltus and a Year 11 class was ordered to follow casual contact precautions. Deryn Lavell, ...

Regulations for quarantine of Covid-19 contacts in schools have been changed, the education minister revealed yesterday. Diallo Rabain said in a letter to senior education staff that vaccinated people who tested positive for the coronavirus would hav...