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A west end nature reserve is to get a makeover. The Bermuda Audubon Society said a “major restoration project” at the Somerset Long Bay Nature Reserve was launched to tackle vines and cow cane that had overrun the reserve. Karen Border, the society’s...

Bermuda ranked fifth among 35 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development for the percentage of the population that held a university degree four years ago, new figures have revealed. The Population and Housing Census Educa...

Staff at the Department of Social Insurance will work from home until April 6, the Government announced today. A spokeswoman said: “The reception cashiers’ area will be closed to the public during this time. “A skeleton crew of staff will be presen...

Bermuda now has six cases of Covid-19, the Premier said tonight. David Burt added four new cases had been detected on top of two earlier ones. He said there had been three new cases that came in from overseas and one of those had passed the coronavir...

Customs officers have held talks with the Government over on-the-job safety, the Minister of National Security said yesterday. Wayne Caines said that efforts had been made to alleviate concerns which caused customs officers to walk off the job on Wed...

A Bermudian scientist in England yesterday said her genetics research could reduce Covid-19 diagnosis from days to hours and help save lives. Carika Weldon, a researcher at Oxford Genomics Centre, part of Oxford University Hospitals, said: “For me t...

Soldiers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment have mobilised at the airport to help returned residents disembark and transport those who need quarantined outside their homes to special accommodation. Sergeant Giovanni Lema, a member of the RBR’s Motor Tra...

Essential services run by the Department of Works and Engineering are operating as normal, the Government said yesterday. A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said that the public would “experience no change in service levels”. He added: “T...

On-island tests for Covid-19 have started and more test kits are expected to arrive in Bermuda over the next two weeks, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt added that the maximum turnaround time for results would be 48 hours. Mr Burt said: “This i...

The health system could be “overwhelmed” if the public fails to follow quarantine and isolation rules, the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s chief of staff warned today. Michael Richmond said that the BHB backed “decisive action” by the Government to limit ...