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Almost 2,000 hotel staff have been laid off as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday. Stephen Todd, the BHA and Hotel Employers of Bermuda chief executive officer, said: “The members of the Bermuda Hotel Asso...

A Bermudian Olympian said yesterday it was inevitable that the Olympic Games would be postponed after Australia and Canada said they would not participate in Tokyo this summer. Tyrone Smith, a long jumper and three-times competitor at the Olympics, s...

The historic Newport Bermuda Race is to be cancelled for the first time in 80 years, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club said yesterday. Organisers added that the race — axed because of the Covid-19 pandemic — was last abandoned in 1940 under the gathering ...

Despite COVID-19 uncertainty, the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) is reminding local entrepreneurs the deadline for applications to its Experience Investment Programme closes a week today, Tuesday, March 31. The current intake aims to recruit the be...

The United States Consulate General has called on American residents to step forward if they want to leave the island. A consulate spokesman said: “The Government of Bermuda confirmed six cases of Covid-19 in Bermuda as of March 23. “All US citizens ...

Sanitisation stations have been set up at Westgate jail to help in the battle against Covid-19, the head of the Prison Officers Association said. Timothy Seon added that the Government had committed to the maintenance of items that will help inmates ...

The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts, the Bermuda Piano Festival and the Bermuda School of Music are pleased to announce that the Bermuda Festival will now be presenting the Bermuda Piano Festival. The Piano Festival was launched in 2017 by...

Organisers of the Bermuda Day Half-Marathon Derby and Sinclair Packwood Memorial cycle race are watching the progress of the Covid-19 outbreak very closely ahead of one of the biggest holidays of the year. Bermuda Day, scheduled for May 29, also invo...

Some cleaning companies have cut services in a bid to protect staff and customers from the Covid-19 pandemic. Tarah Woolgar, owner of Maid in Bermuda, said the company had suspended services to people in quarantine and its commercial contracts for th...

A financial safety net for people left out of work due to Covid-19 was today backed by a charity for families. Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the unemployment scheme announced by Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, w...