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There has been an increase in unapproved items being shipped to Bermuda including Covid-19 test kits, the Customs Department has revealed. Responding to questions about claimed delays in shipped items, a spokeswoman for the department issued an advi...

A cruise ship has steered away from the island ahead of a scheduled visit next month due to the cost of Covid requirements. However, the Government said it expected a “close to normal” cruise ship schedule for 2022 based on early numbers. Carnival Cr...

Disagreements over the Covid-19 vaccine have created an atmosphere of “toxicity and disharmony” in the workplace, a union leader claimed yesterday. Armell Thomas, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said that there were “divisions” be...

Dear Sir, Many are fond of declaring this “a pandemic of the unvaccinated”. Fingers are constantly being pointed and blame placed at the feet of the untouchables, as if we cultivated this virus in a lab somewhere and then let it escape and wreak havo...

Bermuda Health Council staff held a roadside demonstration yesterday to boost public morale as Covid-19 continued to lay siege to the country. The Bermuda Health Council said the five-strong demonstration of support on East Broadway near Hamilton dre...

International businesses have donated $281,000 to buy fast coronavirus tests for public schools. The money will be used to buy more than 99,000 lateral flow test kits, which allow users to test themselves for the coronavirus and give results inside 1...

Bermuda’s deaths from Covid-19 last night hit the grim milestone of 100 with two more fatalities related to coronavirus. Kim Wilson, the health minister, also announced 12 new cases out of the 3,450 latest test results for the virus. Active cases con...

Covid-19 guidelines for sport are being revised to better reflect the present situation on the island. Ernest Peets, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, said the changes were necessary as the original return to play guidelines were implemented ...

The US has announced it will make limited exceptions for unvaccinated foreigners to enter the country. Exceptions will be made for children, people who have to visit for emergency or humanitarian reasons and people who cannot have the vaccine for med...

Hospital staff will be reminded they should not wear their uniforms outside work after a staff member was barred from boarding a bus, the Bermuda Hospitals Board said yesterday. The move came after worker said that he had been forced to sleep at the ...

As the clever old saw goes: if you want to kill an idea, even a good one, send it to a committee for study and recommendation. The tactic came to mind when the question surfaced very recently at one of those televised Covid press conferences as to wh...