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A retirement planner at an Island insurance firm has qualified as a specialist in the field. Laurie Daniels, customer services manager at Colonial Group, has become a chartered retirement planning counsellor (CRPC) after successfully completing an on...

The People’s Campaign will host a public forum on the impact of the annual Government Budget on Tuesday night. Panellists including Shadow Finance Minister David Burt, Chamber of Commerce president Kristi Grayson, BIU president Chris Furbert and BPSU...

The Bermuda Industrial Union is looking into the case of a man who claims he was wrongly dismissed from the Bermuda Hospitals Board in 2013. The former housekeeper was fired after a female supervisor reported him for using threatening words about ano...

Bus drivers, faced with a proposal to cut down on their overtime, fear that such reductions are being considered “across the whole of Government”. Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, made the remark after a meeting of unionised ...

The founder of The Huffington Post news website is to visit Bermuda to give a presentation on the urgent need to take personal wellness seriously. Arianna Huffington is being brought to the Island by Colonial Medical Insurance to speak at two events ...

A drastic overrun on the allocated budget for overtime in public transport has led to the severe disruption in bus routes, according to Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert. A group of unionised drivers and mechanics met for nearly two ho...

Government’s pension fund for civil servants remains under review, but its cost of living adjustment, suspended last year, will stay off the table “until further notice”. Presenting the actuarial report into the Public Service Superannuation Fund (PS...

The Bermuda Industrial Union is to hold a meeting with bus operators tomorrow morning to discuss cancelled bus runs and overtime. The Allied Workers’ Division will meet at 11.30pm and the BIU said there would be no disruption to service. There have...

The decision to bypass war veterans and pay their pensions directly to nursing homes has been faulted as a cutback targeting an especially undeserving group. Carol Everson, a welfare case worker for the Bermuda Legion, conceded that reductions might ...

An updated schedule has been posted for today’s bus service cancellations. Meanwhile, Government has advised that the only run that will be cancelled tomorrow is route 10 at 7.15am from St George’s to Hamilton. A ban on overtime has been cited as the...

At least half of the jobs being created through the development of the Pink Beach Hotel will be promised to Bermudians, according to developer Sardis. There will be an estimated between 80 and 100 construction jobs and about 50 other jobs once the ...

Dear Jason Hayward, While I’m not in agreement with the entire contents of your February 23 press statement [regarding the reduction in payroll concessions], I wholeheartedly concur with your sentiments expressed in the last two sentences: “Unless a...