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The Covid-19 pandemic damage to the tourism industry has forced hoteliers to think long term, a resort general manager said yesterday. Bushara Bushara, of Newstead Belmont Hills Golf Resort and Spa, said: “We are all planning for the future. It’s not...

A long-awaited shift in the weather brought some much-needed rain to the Island and some relief for tanks and the parched plant life. Rainfall freshens the surface waters and may help to cool things down a bit although it would take a vast amount of...

Onias Bascome, the St George’s captain, hopes his team’s inspiring win over Willow Cuts in their previous outing in the Premier Division Twenty20 was the start of better things to come. St George’s beat Cuts by 15 runs at Wellington Oval last weekend...

I always forget just how hot it gets in August. That is, until I start burning my thighs on the car seat. I both sat down and leapt up within a nanosecond yesterday, throwing my belongings everywhere. One of my belongings was a freshly made, iced tur...

The British media were branded “highly mischievous” yesterday by Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, after articles ran in two leading newspapers on a video that featured senior Bermudian officers. The video, reported on by The Times and ...

Voters will go to the polls on October 1 after the Premier called a General Election yesterday. David Burt, the Progressive Labour Party leader, said the decision was based on financial prudency because of the possibility of multiple by-elections. Bu...

A charity thrift store is to hold its first outdoor market today to try to keep its elderly volunteers safe from Covid-19. Isabella Hall, the spokeswoman for Encore Thrift Shop, the fundraising arm of St John’s Church in Pembroke, said most of the sh...

Dear Sir, It was with consternation that I read in The Royal Gazette of recent edition “that it is unlikely there will be any further jury trials for the rest of 2020”. I am sure that the judge who made this pronouncement did not make it without care...

Given the turbulent economic times in which Bermuda finds itself because of Covid-19, it is time for the Government to examine establishing a national investment fund to help insulate the economy from economic shocks and, at the same time, help to po...

The United States stock markets blazed through new highs this week. How could this be? There are many and varied opinions (I emphasise opinion) as to why the US (and other global markets) are up, even while the pandemic is still omnipresent with fami...

The Premier has appealed to the Governor to ask court officials to accept a 10 per cent salary cut “in the spirit of shared sacrifice”. Mr Burt confirmed that court staff had threatened industrial action over the proposed reductions. He said at Thurs...

If you have a college-bound teen, you’re probably both a little stressed out right now. And your teen might even be feeling downright sad if their college plans aren’t shaping up the way they’d hoped because of the pandemic. That’s okay. Change can b...