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A pressure group has said the education of pupils of all ages was hampered by mask wearing in class after the Government said primary schoolchildren in the first three years did not have to wear them for lessons. Us For Them Bermuda, set up after th...

Parents yesterday appealed to Government to trust them to carry out at home antigen tests on children instead of a lab test before they returned to school. A spokeswoman for pressure group Us For Them Bermuda, a group of parents opposed to many of th...

Pupils will still be expected to wear masks in classrooms to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, the health minister confirmed yesterday. Kim Wilson said that the step helped to protect older family members in multigenerational homes. She was speak...

Education officials are prepared to meet a pressure group opposed to mandatory mask wearing and other Covid-19 precautions in schools, the organisation said yesterday. A spokeswoman for Us For Them Bermuda said that Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Edu...

Training Bermudians in science will continue despite the departure of the Government laboratory’s director, the Cabinet Office has said. A spokeswoman added that the coronavirus pandemic also highlighted how courses could be added at the Bermuda Coll...

A father has asked for a judicial review of a government requirement for children to have routine coronavirus tests to attend school. Jason Benevides, a father of four, with one at public school, said he wanted to question the legal authority for rou...

Health officials last night defended masks for schoolchildren and the continued use of the SafeKey system for bars and restaurants, even though the Cabinet continued to discuss changing coronavirus restrictions. Kim Wilson, the health minister, and A...

A pressure group is calling on the Ministry of Health to backtrack on what it considers to be excessive and unfair Covid-19 regulations being enforced on children. The Government reintroduced Phase 1 Covid-19 regulations this week meaning childr...

A major crowdfunding website has rejected a bid by campaigners opposed to the Government’s Covid-19 vaccination programme to use it to raise cash. The Bermuda Freedom Alliance linked up with the GoFundMe platform last year to raise cash to record int...

Quarantine periods are to be cut from next week, the health minister revealed yesterday. Kim Wilson added that schoolchildren would also switch from PCR tests to the antigen type. Ms Wilson insisted that the changes to quarantine requirements would h...