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Complaints linked to Covid-19 accounted for a significant portion of the Ombudsman for Bermuda’s caseload last year, according to the office’s 2020 annual report. They ranged from emergency unemployment benefits for people put out of work to pandemic...

Government has clarified incorrect information posted on its website about mask requirements for young children attending childcare facilities. The www.gov.bm website had said that children aged two years and above were required to wear masks “at al...

Covid and the resulting lengthy lockdowns caused enormous hardship for many in Bermuda. People were cut off from their family and friends, they lost their livelihoods and, in some tragic cases, their loved ones. But despite everything, people refused...

Travellers recently returning to the island were mistakenly sent home to quarantine, the government has admitted. A Ministry of Health spokeswoman said last night the 17 travellers did not fall within categories exempted from mandatory hotel quaranti...

Cricket match organisers will only have to adhere to Covid-19 SafeKey requirements if there are more than 275 people at a match at any one time, the Sports Minister confirmed yesterday. The decision to lift the SafeKey requirement from 51 to 275 cam...

Government overpaid $3.5 million in unemployment benefits during the Covid-19 lockdowns, the finance minister admitted yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said about 2,500 people – or one in four of those who received the benefit – were overpaid an average ...

Government has earned almost $5.5 million in fees generated from controversial travel authorisation forms, it has been revealed. But it has also paid out more than $500,000 to the company that created the software to create the TAFs and to manage the...

Mandatory hotel quarantining will be in place for at least another three months – despite claims by the Premier that the controversial policy could be ditched as soon as Bermuda achieves herd immunity from the Covid-19 virus. David Burt made the pled...

For virtually the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government is experiencing sustained criticism of its handling of the crisis. Perhaps because of the novelty of taking fire from within the Progressive Labour Party and w...

Players and spectators will be no longer asked to meet Covid-19 SafeKey requirements at cricket matches, The Royal Gazette has learnt. Ernest Peets, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, is understood to have made the sensational announcement dur...

Covid and the resulting lengthy lockdowns caused enormous hardship for many in Bermuda. People were cut off from their family and friends, they lost their livelihoods and, in some tragic cases, their loved ones. But despite everything, people refused...