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Coastguard boats on patrol escorted two vessels to St George’s for customs clearance last week. The service, part of the Royal Bermuda Regiment, also intercepted and turned back a boat with four people on board who had headed out to fish because the ...

We have now seen two Bermuda lawyers congratulate the Bermuda Government on the good sense of the declaration of the state of emergency under section 14 of our constitution. Statements of this kind always require a good deal of thought before governm...

Supermarket workers have been praised for pulling out all the stops to keep the island supplied with food and other essentials during the Covid-19 crisis. Mitchell Foote, the assistant manager of Shelly Bay MarketPlace, said his exhausted staff had “...

Police are investigating a break-in at a Pembroke grocery store in the early hours of Saturday. A police spokesman said that police received a call that an alarm at Arnold’s Supermarket on St John’s Road had been triggered just before 2.30am. The spo...

I write this in exasperation at the Bermuda Government’s patently illogical approach to the coronavirus lockdown. Here is my theory: that by reacting to only a small minority on two opposite ends of the Covid-19 panic, the Premier and his team have ...

Hiscox has cancelled a scheduled dividend and withdrawn financial guidance for the time being due to uncertainty created by the Covid-19 crisis. In a statement, Hiscox said its board had decided that the resolution to pay a 29.6 cents per share divi...

When one young middle schooler first heard about the Covid-19 crisis, she was terrified for her grandmother. What if she caught the virus at school or the grocery store and made her grandmother sick? She decided the best way to deal with the situati...

A charity tending to homeless cats claimed its stay-at-home waiver got pulled without warning, as authorities during the holiday contended with continued lockdown violations. Police reported the public had ventured out without approved exemptions, on...

Dear Sir, The dictionary defines “tradition” as ”the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way”. So how many generations does a custom have to be passed down through before it become...

Two residents and two members of staff at a care home have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. Health minister Kim Wilson announced the news about the Matilda Smith Williams Seniors Residence yesterday. Ms Wilson revealed the total ...

The “first portion” of supplies to perform 40,000 Covid-19 tests have arrived in Bermuda, the Premier confirmed. David Burt added that stocks already on the island were sufficient to keep up with the existing need. His comments came at the same time ...

Bermudian students quarantined in a hotel have expressed their thanks after being brought home when Covid-19 reduced society to a standstill. Dozens of people have been staying at the island resort to stop the spread of the killer virus since they re...