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The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel are expected to discuss finance arrangements for its refurbishment in the next month, the finance minister revealed yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said Gencom, the owners of the shuttered Fairmont Southampton, had s...

A bill of $5.3 million for unemployment benefits in just three months highlighted the economic impact of the latest coronavirus outbreak, the finance minister said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said benefits had been paid to 4,938 people since March an...

A substantial donation has brought a new shelter for homeless women and their children closer to the finish line. Aspen, an insurance and reinsurance firm, gave $25,000 to Habitat for Humanity Bermuda earlier this month to help create its Transformat...

Rental rates have been slashed by the City of Hamilton to help reduce the financial strains faced by residents, community groups, small businesses and local charities caused by Covid-19. “Due to the limited capacity of social gatherings as per the Be...

A Covid-19 curfew breach and traffic offences yesterday cost a man $3,850. Adam King, 41, was fined $2000 in Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded guilty to a breach of the earlier 7pm to 7am curfew as well as two traffic offences. The court heard poli...

A week devoted to making sure people are ready for the hurricane season will launch next Monday. Renee Ming, the national security minister, said that the emergency broadcast service would broadcast daily lunchtime briefings until next Friday. She ad...

The first International Baccalaureate class at a private school yesterday prepared themselves for their high school graduation. The total of 12 Somersfield Academy pupils – some of whom had been at the Devonshire school since they were aged three – c...

An award in the name of racial equality campaigner Eva Hodgson has been launched by an antiracism charity. The Dr Eva N Hodgson award was launched by CURB to mark the first anniversary of her death. A CURB spokesman said: “The award is open to organi...

Garbage normally collected on Friday will now be taken on Saturday due to the Bermuda Day holiday. A spokesman for the ministry of public works said: “As a reminder, Friday garbage collection areas include Smith’s Parish east of Devil’s Hole, all of ...

The first cruise ship to come to Bermuda in more than a year, anchored off Dockyard yesterday in what was hailed as a landmark moment in the island’s recovery from Covid-19. The Viking Orion, which arrived off St David’s on Friday, moved to Grassy Ba...