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Prices for commercial insurance spiked 19 per cent in the second quarter, broker Marsh reported. It was the largest year-over-year increase recorded by Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index, since it was launched in 2012 and the eleventh successive q...

A pharmacy student who hopes to join the island’s battle against chronic illness has been given a $10,000 boost. Ashley Davies is the winner this year of the Phoenix Stores’ Dr Kathy-Ann Louise White Pharmacy Scholarship, named after the first Bermud...

Worried teachers said yesterday they feared problems with the school bus service when the new term started because of Covid-19 safety rules. It is expected that students will be required to stick to social-distancing rules on reduced capacity buses w...

Storing solar-generated energy to use when the sun goes down, or as back-up when the electricity goes off in a hurricane, are scenarios that can be handled by a new energy storage system coming to Bermuda. Greenlight Energy has partnered with Tesla ...

The biometric identification required for Canadian visa applicants in Bermuda is not available locally because of a travel ban on Canadian public servants caused by the pandemic. The service, which is mandatory for foreign students, had formerly been...

Mortgage insurer Essent Group Ltd’s second-quarter earnings took a hit as borrowers were stretched by the economic impact of the pandemic. The Bermudian-based company said net income for the April-to-June period was $15.4 million, a drop of nearly 89...

We are a few months into one of the most dramatic economic calamities the world has witnessed, one that has not been seen since the Great Depression many decades ago. The entire world is fighting a battle to keep people safe from a disease that, whil...

Police will be able to shut licensed premises for 24 hours if they breach Covid-19 regulations. A police spokesman said the Public Health (Covid-19 Emergency Powers) Amendment (No 3) Regulations were amended last week to introduce the new powers. He ...

Rare Victorian terraces outside Dockyard could be struck from the historic buildings register in two weeks’ time to allow owner West End Development Corporation to tear them down. The notice to delist Albert Row as buildings of special architectural ...

David Burt recently noted that paying out almost $6 million to Skyport as part of the airport agreement was a hard pill to swallow in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis, and he was right. It has been argued by the Premier and by Neville Tyrrell, the ...

A single case of Covid-19 was logged out of 1,211 test results for the illness that came back between Sunday and yesterday. The Ministry of Health said the case came in on the Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta last Monday. The returned resident had...

Bermudian run-off specialist Enstar Group reported net earnings of $798.6 million for the second quarter, driven by gains in its investment portfolio as stock and bond markets rebounded. The profit broke down to $36.65 per share and compared to net ...