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A top Bermudian insurance executive was backed by hundreds of people after he delivered a speech that highlighted white privilege in business, a conference heard yesterday. Jonathan Reiss said no one that contacted him after his admission that skin c...

A business leader has called for international companies to confront the issue of a lack of diversity in their senior ranks and to combat the unconscious bias that allows it to continue. Patrick Tannock, chairman of the Association of Bermuda Interna...

Union members staged a protest outside the headquarters of Belco yesterday after three staff were made redundant. The action came after three marketing and communications staff lost their jobs at parent company Ascendant last week, when their roles w...

The home affairs ministry stepped into a row last night about three redundancies at power firm Ascendant. The move came after three Bermudian marketing staff lost their jobs last week at Ascendant, parent company of Belco, and their roles were outsou...

A teacher’s job can sometimes feel like a thankless role, a representative of the teachers’ union said yesterday. Shannon James, president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that “sometimes it just doesn’t feel like the community is on your side...

Labour Day should honour progress made in workers’ rights, but also encourage more advances in the future, a trade union leader said yesterday. Jason Hayward, president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, added the public should take time to mark i...

The Royal Gazette has hosted a flurry of articles and propaganda pieces advocating a living, or minimum, wage of $18.23 for those whose salaries are inadequate for them to enjoy a reasonable standard of living in Bermuda. For those who are lowly paid...

The mystery closure of education ministry headquarters could be because it was “a toxic environment”. Susan Jackson, the Shadow Minister of Health, was speaking after it was announced that the education offices in St David’s would be closed immediate...

The number of Bermudians in the workforce increased for the first time in 11 years in 2017. The Government’s Department of Statistics said that, based on last year’s Employment Survey, the number of people employed in Bermuda rose by 178 from 33,481 ...

The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Bermuda that aims to lift low-income workers off the breadline. More than two years after Rolfe Commissiong, a government backbencher, first moved to launch a committee that would consider a li...

Classes offered by the Community Education Development Programme are to be shelved at the end of this month, according to Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development. The move came after Mr Rabain informed the House of Assembly...

The current dilemma of the potential for a contributory pension shortfall is not so current. The dilemma has been articulated in reports before to the 2016 release of the Actuarial Review of the Contributory Fund of Bermuda and continues to be a real...