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Bermuda’s first two cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed at about 4pm yesterday, it was revealed last night. David Burt, the Premier, said one of the two residents had travelled from Britain and the other from the United States and the cases were unconne...

People unemployed because of Covid-19 could be helped by an emergency unemployment benefit scheme, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport said yesterday. Lovitta Foggo said that a task force had been set up to implement the programme. Sh...

Government will detail its plans to phase out single-use plastics in the next few months. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said it was planned to eliminate their use in about two years. Mr Roban said: “Our goal is to have the elimination o...

The Supreme Court is to get a permanent home in the building used to house the lower court, the Government has confirmed. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly last Wednesday that the cost of the mov...

So many times in life when the going gets tough, instead of swallowing hard and getting things done, we start looking for sympathy, telling ourselves and anyone who will listen that we are “trying” or “doing our best”, or that the problem is just “to...

Mildred Blyden Davis was a singing sensation in 1950s Bermuda. At 15, Mildred Iris stole the limelight as a last-minute entry in a talent competition and won the opportunity to perform on radio and television in the United States. Back in Bermuda, s...

This afternoon the care home team of the Ministry of Health held a COVID-19 preparedness meeting at the K. Margaret Carter Centre for all categories of care home staff. At the meeting, co-presenters Ja-Mae Smith, Programme Manager of the Care Home R...

Seniors were warned to find ways of distancing themselves, even from loved ones, as the coronavirus pandemic appears to hit elderly patients with health problems worst. Charles Jeffers, the honorary director of Age Concern, said last night that senio...

Age Concern has advised the Government how it can get its message to the elderly as Bermuda prepares for Covid-19. The charity issued the following press release today: Age Concern Bermuda is stressing the importance to seniors and those in contact ...

The Government has cut funding for a controversial programme which sends vulnerable Bermudian children to overseas institutions. The Department of Child and Family Services will get almost $1.6 million to spend on its psychoeducational programme in t...

People see Hayley Francis Cann walking around with instruments and usually assume she is headed somewhere to perform. In a way she is, although her job as a music therapist requires her to “do a lot more than entertain”. There is a clinical process i...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board will not appeal a judge’s decision to award $1.9 million in damages for medical negligence to a man whose wife died after her cancerous tumour was missed by an emergency room doctor. However, the publicly funded quango was...