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Hospitality stakeholders are invited to join a Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) webinar next week aimed at preparing the local industry for the second half of 2020. The free, 90-minute “Tourism Readiness Webinar,” scheduled 12:30 pm to 2 pm (ADT) Mond...

Most of the crew on the Bermuda container ship MV Oleander have reached or gone past the end of their regular three-month contracts, but are unable to travel home or take shore leave because of the coronavirus crisis. Strict precautions to prevent Co...

As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...

Another 41 Covid-19 test results were received by the Ministry of Health today and all were clear. Bermuda has had 146 confirmed cases and five of those are active. One person is in hospital but not in critical care. Nine people with the disease have...

Major investments in the island’s care home sector will be needed to cope with a “tsunami” of ageing seniors. Patrice Horner, of specialist financial advice service Senior Solutions, said the development of affordable options to look after the growin...

Government spending has exceeded tax revenue in every year this century. A series of deficits¹ ensued, culminating in a debt of $2.7 billion. This state of affairs led the Government in 2015 to create the Fiscal Responsibility Panel, an advisory grou...

A new dock has been built at an East End park, despite the lack of government approval for the work. Workers at the site said the dock, at Rocky Hill Park in St George’s, was a replacement for one that had fallen into disrepair. A worker at the site,...

A garbage collector was hurt after an unemptied spray paint can exploded over a three-man crew. A Ministry of Public Works spokesman said that the aerosol can exploded when the bag it was in was put in the government trash truck’s waste compactor and...

Teachers voted yesterday to take a 10 per cent salary cut for a year as part of the fightback from the economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Bermuda Union of Teachers and associated staff unanimously backed the move at a special gen...

A charity set up to protect Bermuda’s bluebirds has appealed to the public to help them save the species. Stuart Smith, of the Bermuda Bluebird Society, said the group hoped to collect information about eastern bluebird nests island-wide so they coul...

Astoria Smith spent Father’s Day weekend giving pedicures, for free. Eighteen women who lost their jobs as a result of Covid-19 had their feet buffed and their toenails clipped and coloured at Lacquered Lounge, her St George’s spa. Her belief: people...

A woman whose teacher groomed her for sex when she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl said yesterday she was “over the moon” that her public campaign to criminalise such behaviour had persuaded the Government to change the law. Christine DaCosta was speaki...