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The biochemist in charge of the main coronavirus screening laboratory said last night the tests used on the island were “very sensitive”. Carika Weldon added the key to a reduction in false results was to get the right sample from patients. Dr Weldon...

A police officer swapped his patrol car for a paintbrush to help a woman whose home was targeted by vandals over the shelter-in-place regulations. Anthony Bartley, a parish constable, stepped in after graffiti was scrawled on the wall of a house in P...

There was trading in 1,500 shares of One Communications Ltd, and 200 shares of Polaris Holding Company Ltd, but with no change to either’s closing price on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index. On the New York Stock Exchange, shares of Butterfield Bank were u...

No new Covid-19 cases or deaths were reported today, the health ministry said tonight. A spokeswoman for the ministry said 150 tests results had come back and all were clear. Bermuda’s total number of Covid-19 cases remained at 118 and the death toll...

Bus and ferry services will not return to the island until proper physical distancing measures are in place on vehicles, the Government said yesterday. A spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism and Transport said that a team was “working to resume publ...

RenaissanceRe suffered a hit of more than $100 million from Covid-19 to its first-quarter results. The Bermudian reinsurer posted a loss of $82 million, or $1.89 per share, in the first three months of the year, compared to net income of $273.7 milli...

Police warned they will be out in force to tackle a surge of speeding motorists. The Roads Policing Unit resumed speed checks in response to increased traffic on the roads between 6am and 10pm since shelter-in-place regulations were relaxed. The high...

Bermuda post offices restarted counter service this week — but with Covid-19 safety restrictions. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said counter services relaunched at all post offices on Tuesday except the Perot Post Office on Hami...

The pivotal role foster parents play in a child’s life is being recognised this month by the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS). May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and the Department is paying tribute to the families who open their homes...

Another 16 cruise ship visits to Bermuda have been cancelled by Carnival Corporation. It means that one third of planned cruise ship visits to the island by all operators this year have now been called off. Carnival, which operates Carnival Cruise Li...

Lisa relies on her mobile phone to keep a record of the beatings but the verbal abuse ... that’s on a constant loop inside her head. Like the past seven years of her life, shelter in place was a nightmare. In her late thirties, unemployed and with t...

Bermuda is ideally placed to come to the fore in a new and better era for the reinsurance industry when the Covid-19 pandemic is over. Its track record for innovation and reinvention within the industry is among the reasons Ryan Mather has optimism t...