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Further amendments to the island’s economic substance regime were approved yesterday as the island worked to avoid a return to the EU’s blacklist. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said the Economic Substance Amendment Act 2021 was designed ...

The Minister of Education will be able to hand pick the deputy chairman of the Board of Education if a proposed law is approved by the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain tabled the Education Amendment (No. 2) Act 2021 in the House of Assembly yesterday...

Artworks by two young artists have been added to the Bermuda National Gallery’s permanent collection. Gherdai Hassell’s mixed media pieces, Atlas of Afterimage and Points on the Circle and Jayde Gibbons’ photography exhibit, All The King’s Men, will...

A patio has been built at a beach to honour a late stalwart of the Bermuda Industrial Union and former senator. The LaVerne Furbert memorial patio, built on Shelly Bay Beach in Hamilton Parish, was unveiled yesterday as a way to help people with mobi...

Two convicted gunmen were not disadvantaged by unfairness in the jury selection system, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Quincy Brangman and Le-Veck Roberts both asked for their convictions to be quashed because prosecutors “stood by” a disproportionat...

The number of groups exempted from supervised quarantine rules has been slashed, it was revealed tonight. A Government spokeswoman said that the seven exempted categories for non-vaccinated arrivals had been cut to three in response to the spread of ...

No shares traded on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday as The Royal Gazette/BSX Index closed unchanged on 2,561.47. For the week, the index fell 0.3 per cent, driven by a 0.6 per cent decrease in the price of Butterfield Bank shares. The bank close...

The Bermuda Industrial Union today put pressure on the Government to change its policy to force unvaccinated arrivals to undergo a mandatory two week supervised quarantine. The union also asked the Bermuda Hotel Association to rethink its requirement...

The One Bermuda Alliance this morning called on the Government to change its mind on preventing unvaccinated Bermudians who do not pay for the mandatory quarantine in a hotel returning to the island. Shadow health minister Michael Dunkley said the mo...

The City of Hamilton today announced garbage collection changes for the holiday weekend. A spokeswoman man said there would be: • No residential trash collection or pick-up of kitchen oils until next Tuesday. • Collection will be carried out as norma...

Water safety watchdogs today highlighted rules to avoid dangers at sea over the holiday weekend. Michael Weeks, the chairman of the Water Safety Council, said most Covid-19 restrictions would be lifted on Sunday – but called on boaters and jet ski ri...

Police will be out in force to check for Covid-19 regulation breaches over the holiday weekend – as well as conducting speed and drink driving checkpoints. Assistant Commissioner of Police Martin Weekes said: “As part of our efforts to help make this...