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Legislation to formally extend the Covid-19 public health emergency to the end of September is expected to be debated in the House of Assembly today. The Public Health (Covid-19) Emergency Extension (No. 4) Order 2021, tabled in the House last week, ...

An Opposition MP has called for the Government to launch a fresh campaign to revive the vaccination programme. Michael Dunkley, the Opposition spokesman for health and national security, made the call last night after new statistics showed the numbe...

Police have reported a quarantine breach at the Cannonier-Watson residence, which a spokesman said would result in another court appearance for the family. Sophia Cannonier and her husband Michael Watson said a “sea” of police officers appeared at th...

People are worried about the coronavirus again. So it is understandable that public health officials are feeling pressure to recommend Covid-19 booster shots soon, before we find out the hard way when the vaccines wear off. Pfizer Inc contributed by ...

The Bermuda Post Office has paid tribute to Bermuda’s essential workers with a special stamp release. The BPO has revised the 50 cent shell stamp, which depicts a Bermuda Cone shell, and overprinted it with the title “Honouring All Essential Workers”...

We are more divided than we have ever been is the claim. But a claim is all it is, all part of the theatre of politics brought on by the pandemic in which we find ourselves. There are no actual means by which such claims can be substantiated. The gre...

A campaigner opposed to mandatory supervised quarantining has again maintained that he did not submit a medical exemption form when he returned from an overseas trip last week. Antonio Belvedere acknowledged that he did share an exemption letter from...

The coronavirus pandemic sparked an increase in calls from workers concerned about their rights – including mandatory Covid testing, a new report shows. According to the Human Rights Commission’s 2020 Annual Report, tabled in the House of Assembly on...

Government’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is “drifting without impetus” and is unlikely to achieve herd immunity targets, according to the Opposition. Michael Dunkley, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for National Security and Health, spoke out f...

Few are coming out of the controversy over mandatory supervised quarantine very well. That is as true for the opponents of mandatory supervised quarantine, who often display a tenuous grip on science, as it is for the Government, which has appeared ...

Government has passed legislation that will enable it to recover overpayments of unemployment benefit more effectively. The Public Treasury (Administration and Payments) Amendment and Validation Act 2021 (the Act) was passed in the House of Assembly ...

Parliamentary rules thwarted an attempt to get details on an “error“ granting an exemption to the lockdown imposed in April that briefly allowed construction of a St George’s hotel to continue. The exemption for the St Regis resort construction was p...