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Covid-19 guidelines for sport have been changed to allow antigen testing rather than saliva testing, the Government said today. A spokeswoman for the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport said Stage 3, of the return to play guidelines, which came into...

Two more deaths from Covid-19 brought the pandemic death toll to 89, it was announced last night. There were 46 new coronavirus cases out of 3,438 rest results that came back to officials – a positivity rate of 1.3 per cent. But the number of active...

Three public schools have reopened their classrooms and 18 others have crossed the Covid-19 screening threshold to return to in-person teaching. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said 21 of the islands 36 schools had received more than the 80...

The Axa End-to-End has been approved for later this month and organisers expect to raise more than $6 million. Anne Mello, the chairwoman of the End-to-End Charitable Trust, said the organisers had been given a large group exemption to hold the fundr...

The Government today warned the public about a fake e-mail that asked people to “validate” their Covid-19 status. A spokeswoman said the e-mail – which was being spread on social media – was designed to appear as if it came from the Ministry of Healt...

A Government senator has appealed to the public to talk to their doctors about vaccines after her cousin died of Covid-19. Lindsay Simmons said the recent death had left a family in mourning, including her cousin’s mother, siblings and three children...

The Bermuda Health Council has published a list of approved antigen tests for the coronavirus. The tests can be conducted at home and provide a result in minutes – although a positive result will still have to be confirmed by a follow-up PCR test. Ri...

LeBron James has always wanted to be the NBA’s “Goat” both on the court and off it. In both categories — as a player and as a savvy marketer and steward of his own brand — his only real competition is Michael Jordan. There is, however, one significan...

Frontline professionals should be forced to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the Opposition said yesterday. Scott Pearman, the acting leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, said that the Government’s campaign was “not working” and appealed for to...

Exceptions to an air travel ban for unvaccinated foreign arrivals to the United States will be “very limited”, the country’s Consulate in Bermuda has warned. A spokeswoman for the US Consulate said that “all adult foreign nationals travelling to the ...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority will put out a request for proposal to rebrand the island’s tourism industry, according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee. The report, tabled in the House of Assembly, said it was hoped that a Bermuda firm wou...

Employment law experts said that mandatory coronavirus tests in workplaces was lawful if “reasonably” justified by a duty of care. Juliana Snelling and Gambrill Robinson, of Canterbury Law, looked at the legalities after the Bermuda Employers’ Counci...