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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...

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...