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Bermuda may have to rethink its concentration on New York for tourism because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the island’s acting tourism chief has warned. Glenn Jones, the interim chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said the organisation mi...

New cases of Covid-19 have been found in Bermuda’s care homes, the Government has revealed. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said that a total of 44 cases of the virus had been detected after tests at care homes — three more than on Monday. It was no...

A free online directory of places open for business has been launched. ShopSafe.bm is a listing of restaurants, shops and other businesses allowed to operate restricted services after shelter-in-place regulations were relaxed. The service was created...

A student spent weeks in quarantine and lockdown as part of an international team that designed an online tool to track potential cases of Covid-19. Gabe Jones, who is studying computer science at the University of Edinburgh, teamed up with Lee McArt...

Restaurants and the hospitality sector face a bleak future after a long-established bar announced it was to shut up shop because of the coronavirus crisis, owners warned yesterday. Philip Barnett, of the Island Restaurant Group, said: “Until we’re ab...

The search for a missing young mother covered parts of the West End of the island yesterday. A team looking for Chavelle Dillon-Burgess combed parts of Sandys, including areas around Lagoon Park, Lefroy House, Albert Row and Sea Glass Beach. Others c...

British Airways said yesterday it would not restart “meaningful” services until July at the earliest — and there could be a 50 per cent reduction in capacity. Willie Walsh, the chief executive of IAG, the parent company of BA, said the return of flig...

Public health experts have still to calculate the reproductive rate of Covid-19 on the island, the Minister of Health has said. Kim Wilson was asked by The Royal Gazette if she could share the R0, or R-nought, a value that represents the number of ne...

Charity leaders said yesterday they feared the impact the end of support from an emergency fund could have on Covid-19 crisis services. The Bermuda Community Foundation told emergency fund grant recipients this week that the scheme was “beginning to ...

Residents plunged into hardship by the Covid-19 crisis will be able to make a one-time withdrawal of $12,000 from their pension pot under legislation to be fast-tracked through the House of Assembly today. However, dipping into retirement savings pre...