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Bermuda’s wedding planners will take years to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic, an expert in the sector said yesterday. Nikki Begg, the founder and lead planner of Bermuda Bride, said the outbreak had been “disastrous” for the industry. She e...

A disaster relief recovery bond could help the Bermuda Government meet some of the extra borrowing needs it faces as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. Some are floating the idea as a way to also get the community involved in supporting the economic re...

Bermuda’s cahows notched up a record 134 breeding pairs this year — and the chicks were at healthier weights than 2019. Jeremy Madeiros, the Government’s principal conservation officer, said that 68 of the endangered birds hatched in 2020. The number...

Donald Trump has made a series of obviously false claims about the coronavirus. But at the news briefing yesterday — the first in weeks in which the President and coronavirus task force officials took questions — he offered perhaps his biggest whoppe...

The number of lives lost to Covid-19 has risen to eight, it was revealed yesterday. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said she was “deeply saddened” to report another fatality over the weekend. She said that the details of the victim would not be rele...

Covid-19 and the socioeconomic impacts on healthcare. In the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, Clyde Lancy reported that in Chicago, more than 50 per cent of Covid-19 cases and nearly 70 per cent of Covid-19 deaths involve black ...

Flights between Bermuda and five cities are expected to be available when the airport reopens to commercial flights, the Minister of Tourism and Transport said yesterday. However, Zane DeSilva — who did not give a timetable for flight resumption — wa...

Katherine Fisher used to make custom covers for bike and car seats as part of her business Gotcha Covered Upholstery. Now, after she obtained a microloan from the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, she has switched to the production of protect...

The Royal Gazette/BSX Index closed unchanged on 1,597.44 on a day when no stocks traded on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. The US-listed shares of Butterfield Bank slumped 90 cents, or 4.12 per cent, to close at $20.94 on the New York Stock Exchange as 5...

The Transport Control Department has brought back its call-in service, allowing people without internet access to relicense their vehicles by phone. A spokesman said the option, which was offered just before shelter-in-place restrictions got lifted, ...

Somers Ltd remains hopeful that it can complete the agreed sale of Bermuda Commercial Bank after the deal was stalled by the Covid-19 crisis. The financial-services holding company agreed last year to sell BCB to Permanent Capital Holdings Ltd and in...

A summer internship programme will go ahead at Bermuda’s new re/insurer, Convex Re, even if Covid-19 pandemic restrictions mean the intern has to learn to be adaptive “in a work from home environment”. The $1.7 billion start-up, cofounded by insuran...