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Emergency medical flights are more of a problem than ever because of the Covid-19 crisis, one of the island’s top health insurance professionals said yesterday. BF&M’s Michelle Jackson said the impact of the airport closure, the scarcity of beds at o...

Some hotels will shut for good if the Government fails to give the industry a break on employment overheads, industry leaders have warned the Premier. The Bermuda Hotel Association asked for an extension of the 12-week unemployment benefits programme...

Bermuda’s health providers will next month update how they classify medical problems to help provide better coverage. The Bermuda Health Council announced this morning it would shift its medical diagnostic coding system from ICD-9 to ICD-10, which it...

John Rankin, the Governor, visited the Bermuda Coast Guard today to mark its 50th day of embodiment operations. The facility at Watford House is operating round the clock to enforce emergency regulations on the water, ensure mariners are complying wi...

An annual cancer fundraising event will take place in virtual form this evening. The 2020 Relay for Life, which supports the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, will start at 6pm “island wide” with participants to register and join in from their homes,...

Legislation to allow people to withdraw up to $12,000 from their private pension plans was approved by the Senate yesterday. Vance Campbell, a government senator and the junior public works minister, said the legislation was intended to help people w...

A cruise ship passenger caught with $240,000 worth of drugs on a Bermuda-bound vessel was jailed for more than two years yesterday. Margil Mireles, 32, was sentenced to 27 months in the Supreme Court for his involvement in a plot to bring cannabis, l...

A war veteran and widow who was inspired by her triumph over illness to do voluntary work abroad has died. Deirdre Chapin was 95. David Thompson, the president of Bermuda Overseas Missions, where she was a volunteer, said that Ms Chapin’s last trip w...

All options will be on the table as Bermuda starts to look at ways to kick-start the battered economy, the finance minister revealed last night. Curtis Dickinson said the Economic Advisory Committee, which he will head alongside ten other people from...

Families stuck at home during Covid-19 restrictions can still swim with the dolphins at tourist attractions in Bermuda and Hawaii on a virtual tour. Last week Dolphin Quest started virtual encounters, which offer visits to its three locations over vi...