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Work on the public access to Elbow Beach in Paget will get underway on May 17 as part of Government’s economic stimulus project. David Burch, the public works minister, said the Elbow Beach project had been awarded to Smith Hauling & Excavating and ...

Veterans of the 1981 General Strike were applauded yesterday outside the former headquarters of the Bermuda Industrial Union. A small crowd gathered to commemorate the landmark event 40 years on. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, read a declaration o...

The historic 1981 General Strike that changed the island’s political direction and a tourism economy that was the envy of other destinations started 40 years ago today. The island’s biggest labour dispute in its history capped a decade of social unre...

A civil servant helped broker a deal in the island’s worst industrial relations stalemate, trade unionists said yesterday. They said the “tireless” work of Kenneth Richardson, who was Permanent Secretary at the labour and home affairs ministry at the...

Activists will livestream a commemoration today to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1981 General Strike. Glenn Fubler, a community activist and founder of Imagine Bermuda, said it was a celebration of “the largest peaceful protest in our history”. Th...

More than 800 applications have come in for workers from overseas looking for one-year residency in Bermuda, the labour minister has revealed. Jason Hayward said more than 700 of them had been approved, which would substantially bolster the 400 now r...

Details on the implementation of a minimum wage for the island are to be made public this week, capping years of discussion. Setting a minimum wage should boost jobs for Bermudians and improve pay across the board, according to Jason Hayward, the lab...

Figures are not yet available to show job categories taken up by unemployed Bermudians after a moratorium on work permits on more than 40 types of jobs was extended to the end of July. Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the ban, imposed in N...

One of the Bermuda’s biggest unions has appealed to the public to support healthcare changes, the implementation of unemployment insurance and a living wage. Armell Thomas, the Bermuda Public Services Union president, speaking on the eve of tomorro...

A ban on work permits in more than 40 job categories was yesterday extended for another three months. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said the moratorium, imposed in November and scheduled to finish at the end of this month, will now run to the e...