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A list of numbers including WhatsApp contact details was released yesterday so people can get help with applications for the Government’s unemployment benefits scheme. Lovitta Foggo, the labour minister, said: “We want this process to be as seamless ...

The island’s economy will be left in tatters by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Premier warned last night. David Burt said: “The fact is that the recession that is coming may not be like anything we have seen before. That is a fact.” He adde...

Emergency restrictions imposed for the Covid-19 crisis are appropriate in the circumstances, the Human Rights Commission said yesterday. An HRC statement said that the Constitution allowed the Governor, after consultation with the Premier, to proclai...

A group of art lovers want to use kites to send a special message of appreciation to people on the front line of the war against Covid-19. Jennifer Lang, a teacher at the Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation and other staff at the Devonshire art school said ...

A personal trainer who runs fitness classes for seniors has moved her workouts online in the wake of Covid-19 state-of-emergency, shelter-in-place regulations. Frances Smith, the director of Actively Aging has started to record weekly videos of her c...

Bermuda could suffer as many as 700 Covid-19 deaths it was warned last night as the country recorded its third fatality from the disease. David Burt, the Premier, revealed the grim projection after he announced an 80-year-old man had died in hospital...

A healthcare grant awards scheme has been set up in memory of a top eye surgeon who died last year, aged 64. The Bermuda International Institute of Ophthalmology created the scholarship in honour of the late Leonard Teye-Botchway. The BIIO fund was d...

A developer has been ordered to pay legal costs after he abandoned an effort to fight the validity of a prosecution over a failed hotel project. Michael MacLean had asked for a judicial review of the Director of Public Prosecution’s 2018 decision to ...

Most women due to give birth in hospital will still be able to have their partners at their side when they are in labour despite the Covid-19 crisis, it was revealed yesterday. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said last night that — as long as fathers or ...

A decision to end remote learning for public school pupils was made by the Government, not teachers, their union said yesterday. A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that “no individual teacher or school made the decision to suspend re...