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Quarantine and test rules will be loosened next week, the health minister announced today. Kim Wilson also signalled changes to test requirements for schoolchildren, with a switch from PCR testing requirements to antigen testing. Ms Wilson said the q...

More school classes may need to be taught remotely as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continued to sweep across the island, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt was speaking after schools failed to reopen last Wednesday as planned — and the...

The Premier yesterday apologised for delays in coronavirus testing that were branded “chaotic” by the Opposition. David Burt admitted there had a been a “difference of opinion” with Carika Weldon, the scientist in charge of the test system, as he def...

The Government is to introduce a pilot at-home coronavirus antigen test programme at some schools, The Royal Gazette understands. A letter said to be from Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, was sent to “system leaders” after a backlog o...

Both senior schools will stay shut today, the Government announced last night. CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley Institute will continue with remote learning amid problems with coronavirus testing of large numbers of staff and pupils across the school...

The Government failed to listen to the profession before the “massively botched” reopening of the island’s public schools, the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday. Nishanthi Bailey, the BUT president, said teachers had been “bullied” by the educ...

After-school programmes were suspended today at many schools because of the Covid-19 pandemic and delayed test results. The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation said there will be a delay in the after-school programme and after-school club servi...

Several schools are set to reopen their classrooms to pupils today, but most of the island’s middle schools and senior schools will stay shut. The Department of Education said Victor Scott Preschool would resume classes today, which left St David’s P...

Staff shortages at the Government’s coronavirus test centre was yesterday blamed for delays that halted much of the scheduled return to school and left the airport in “chaos”, The Royal Gazette understands. The log jam for test results out meant just...

The way ministers handled a last minute decision to abandon plans for a full scale return to the classroom was last night attacked by the One Bermuda Alliance. Susan Jackson, the shadow education minister, said parents and families had been suffered ...

Progressive Labour Party MPs said they wanted to see an end to petty partisan politics, a return to undisturbed learning for schoolchildren and an even economic and racial playing field. Christopher Famous, the MP for Devonshire East said: “Any poli...

One Bermuda Alliance MPs said they hoped that the year ahead would attract job creators as well as bring a reduction in violent crime and calm to the roads. Jarion Richardson, the Opposition Whip and Shadow Minister of Labour and for the Cabinet Offi...