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Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has been named as the keynote speaker at the annual Labour Day Banquet taking place next week. Mr Furbert will be the first sitting BIU president to deliver the keynote speech. A BIU state...

A presentation in Hamilton tonight will outline potential career opportunities for Bermudians in Ghana. The free event, from 6pm to 8pm at the Bermuda Industrial Union, will showcase the abundant possibilities in the West African nation for enterpri...

Retirement contracts could help Bermuda find a “happy place” where businesses can be successful without overlooking older workers, according to the director of charity Age Concern. Claudette Fleming said younger workers are often preferred because t...

There’s nothing fun about being called a geriatric. Golden-ager and senior citizen aren’t much better. Bill Storie and Robin Trimingham realised that when they started a retirement blog in 2013. “Maybe in some circumstances those words have a positi...

For the second time in three months, some new pension applications have not been processed in time for payment. As with the June delay, a Ministry of Finance spokesman said that the holdup stemmed from the Department of Social Insurance’s temporary o...

Bermuda is unprepared to deal with recent levels of unemployment, the head of a family charity has claimed. Martha Dismont, executive director of community charity Family Centre said there was “very little recourse” for those who have been made redu...

The Ministry of Public Works has reminded owners of roadside properties that they are responsible for trimming back overhanging trees and hedges, A spokeswoman said that cleaning teams had been working additional hours to help cut back vegetation wh...

Two government trainee civil engineers have been working on the America’s Cup South Basin site to gain experience in the private sector. Ricardo Graham-Ward and Allanette Hayward have completed three-month internships at the site with BCM McAlpine as...

A concerned citizens group known as MOVE (mobilise, organise, visualise, execute), aligned with the People’s Campaign, will voice their opposition of the planned redevelopment of the L.F. Wade International Airport by Canadian company Aecon/CCC at a...

After just about every conflict in the labour arena, we hear plenty of talk about finding ways to settle disputes without having to shut down crucial services to make a point. It would appear that not much progress has occurred in handling delicate i...

Legislation giving a tax break to the Hamilton Princess Hotel to convert a Hamilton commercial space into staff housing has been approved by the Senate. The concessions cover turning the old Bank of Bermuda building into 55 rooms, with the ground fl...

Former employees of the now defunct White’s grocery stores will receive 70 per cent of the money they are owed, liquidators have revealed. Mike Morrison and Charles Thresh of professional services firm KPMG made the announcement last night, adding th...