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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...

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...

My granny turned 98 this week and we sang Happy Birthday over Zoom and watched her blow out candles. Not 98 of them, thank goodness; my aunt had the forethought to just use two … two years to 100! I would love to say that the secret to her long life...

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...

A series of credit card frauds worth about $15,000 are being investigated by police. A spokesman said that the incidents happened before shelter in place rules were imposed to held fight the spread of Covid-19. He added: “At least three establishme...

Key workers will be offered discounted trips on a luxury catamaran as thanks for their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sail Bermuda, which charters the 47ft Wyuna, is run by Marilyn Zuill and her husband Caleb, who is a firefighter. Mrs Zuill, ...

The Government’s communications team was this morning praised for its work to help stop the spread of Covid-19. Jamahl Simmons, the Minister Without Portfolio, who is responsible for communications, told MPs that the aim of his ministerial statement...