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Like many small businesses, my company took a massive financial hit after the outbreak of Covid-19. Gravity Payments is a credit card processor that primarily serves small and mid-sized businesses. Our cashflow depends on how many credit card transac...

Laid off by the Fairmont Southampton in March, Jackson Chandranathan took it as an opportunity to help people less fortunate then himself. Throughout the lockdown period, for five days a week, the chef made his way to the kitchen at the Salvation Arm...

Together with their sponsors and partners, The Royal Gazette has cancelled the 2020 RG Business Top Ten Employers Awards Programme due to Covid-19. This programme also includes an awards ceremony which is generally held in late September. Michael Gr...

Bus service will be halted today between 10am and 1.30pm. The Department of Public Transportation said the interruption would allow talks with drivers in expectation of schools reopening next month. A spokesman said: “The temporary service interrupti...

A businessman and restaurateur has predicted an exodus of lower-skilled overseas workers will continue as the coronavirus pandemic’s economic toll increased. Marico Thomas, who runs Four Star Pizza, Glaze Bakery and Burger Shack, said he had not laid...

An apprenticeship programme where businesses take on Bermudians full-time for work experience and training has been boosted by the Government. There are now 95 apprentices with 20 firms under the earn-and-learn on-the-job training programme, run by t...

As you might imagine, the ongoing global health crisis has provided me with just about all the “me time” I can handle. Don’t get me wrong, I have been pretty upbeat about the situation for the most part and come up with all sorts of novel ways to am...

The head of the firefighters’ union said yesterday that ageing equipment and a lack of staff had helped spark a rejection of government cost-cutting proposals forced by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nakia Pearson, the president of the...

A clampdown on unscrupulous employers who fail to foot the bill for overseas workers who returned home was signalled by the labour minister at the weekend. Jason Hayward reminded company owners that they were obliged to pay for tickets home for peopl...

Police officers claimed yesterday that the Government had “repeatedly moved the goalposts” in its cost-cutting negotiations with their representative body. Inspector Emmerson Carrington, the chairman of the Bermuda Police Association, defended the se...

The Premier felt “profound disappointment” when unions for two uniformed services rejected a government cost-cutting package in the wake of the financial crisis cause by the Covid-19 pandemic. David Burt said yesterday that other steps to make saving...

Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today. Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...