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A contract for maintenance at the Aquatics Centre of the Bermuda National Sports Centre has been awarded to Bermuda Energy Services Company (BESCO). The contract covers the upkeep of the facility’s new 50-metre pool. The agreement is for weekly, qua...

Public transport services have been scrapped for tomorrow as the dispute over sacked hotel workers rumbles on to a third day. Services were thrown into chaos today when hundreds of unionised workers marched in a show of support for the ten staff who ...

The ten employees dismissed from the Fairmont Princess Hotel have not been reinstated, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. However, the latest round of the dispute between the hotel and the Bermuda Industrial Union has been referred to a...

A spokesman for the Department said: “Please be advised that industrial staff from the Department of Marine and Ports will attend a meeting held at Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters today and all Sea Express ferry service has been suspended until...

Unionised workers at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess hotel have downed tools in protest after five staff were made redundant. And Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert said his members will remain off the job until management “comes to its ...

Local companies that hire guest workers will soon be required to provide training programmes for Bermudians when phase two of the new work permit policy goes into effect. Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said that while a number of job categories a...

Former Minister Quinton Edness branded ten redundancies from the Fairmont Hamilton Princess “extremely disturbing”, adding: “If Government was working with Fairmont, they need not be laid off — this has been done before in Bermuda.” The one-time Unit...

In the wake of job losses at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, Labour and Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy has vowed to speak with ministerial colleagues with a view to tying employment requirements to hotel concessions. He is disappointed at how the...