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As Covid-19 sweeps across the globe, many companies are choosing to retract, suspend or reduce dividends to preserve cash and ensure liquidity. Dividend payments are a method of returning value to shareholders, the propriety of which, apart from ques...

More than $500,000 has been donated to an emergency fund to help the island’s most vulnerable people as charities battle to meet hardships caused by the Covid-19 crisis. About 80 donors have contributed to the Bermuda Community Fund-administered rese...

Banks are to open their doors for one day a week to offer limited retail banking services. The initiative is designed primarily to assist seniors and other vulnerable members of society. The Bermuda Bankers Association has obtained approval from Curt...

Dozens of homeless people in an emergency shelter at a secondary school were out on the streets yesterday after they were ordered to leave during daytime hours. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said last night that the temporary shelt...

Dear Sir, The Government is doing a good job ensuring that people keep a safe distance and is being proactive with an evening curfew. Also the businesses assisting with health workers to get back and forth to the hospital are to be congratulated. Ta...

Dear Sir, Maybe the recent actions of the refuse collectors and now the bus drivers should lend impetus to change once we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic? Privatise all public transport and waste collection services. Those running these busines...

Couriers firms have kept up the flow of essential items during the shelter-in-place measures imposed to combat the pandemic. Kevin Smith, the managing director at International Bonded Couriers and ZipX, said the company was still on the job despite b...

A list of numbers including WhatsApp contact details was released yesterday so people can get help with applications for the Government’s unemployment benefits scheme. Lovitta Foggo, the labour minister, said: “We want this process to be as seamless ...

The island’s economy will be left in tatters by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Premier warned last night. David Burt said: “The fact is that the recession that is coming may not be like anything we have seen before. That is a fact.” He adde...

A bee sting nearly killed me. My passion for beekeeping therefore comes as a surprise to many. Through tending their hives, I observe nature’s complex system of interdependency, adaptability and efficiency. It is fascinating to apply these observatio...

Emergency restrictions imposed for the Covid-19 crisis are appropriate in the circumstances, the Human Rights Commission said yesterday. An HRC statement said that the Constitution allowed the Governor, after consultation with the Premier, to proclai...

Five Bermuda students and residents returned to Bermuda from Canada in a private plane a few hours before the island began its shelter in place restrictions. They did so thanks to a collaboration between two of the island’s major international busin...