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Police are to set up roadside breath test checkpoints across the island next weekend. A notice in the Official Gazette said checkpoints would be in operation on January 21, 22 and 23 in seven of the island’s nine parishes, with only St George’s and ...

A cable ship was spotted steaming towards the island yesterday on her way to refuel and change its crew. Peter Faber, a cable layer owned by Optic Marine, also known as the OMS group, sailed from the United States and berthed in Dockyard at about...

A man was fined $900 yesterday after he admitted being in charge of a boat while impaired. Mark Riihiluoma, 50, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the offence, which happened on October 29 last year near Darrell’s Wharf in Warwick. The amount of...

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...

A new record for Covid-19 numbers was revealed last night as cases shot up to 1,882. The total surpassed the 1,612 peak of cases logged on September 21 last year – the height of Bermuda’s fourth wave. A total of 661 new infections were recorded from ...

The loss of the Government’s science adviser and head of its Covid-19 test lab in just 18 days’ time will have no effect on the lab’s performance, the health minister declared yesterday. Kim Wilson said the resignation of Carika Weldon, the executive...

A maths tutoring centre has teamed up with an asset management firm to launch a scholarship drive to send 500 youngsters to summer maths camps. Equilibria Capital Management has agreed to fund 50 scholarships and it is hoped that the scholarship driv...

Hospital patients could be asked to recuperate at home to avoid bed blocking as medics braced themselves for an influx of patients, a senior doctor said yesterday. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, warned that he expec...

Public school pupils will be able to return to the classroom after taking a coronavirus antigen test at home instead of a PCR test. Tinée Furbert, the Acting Minister of Education, said the change will be phased in from next week. Antigen tests have ...

Some pupils at Bermuda High School were learning online this week after pupils tested positive for the coronavirus. Linda Parker, the head of school, said that staff had done everything it could to keep as many pupils in classrooms as possible. But s...