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Layoffs and pay cuts caused in the novel coronavirus pandemic have hit people on lower incomes hardest, a survey has found. A poll by Total Research Associates said that 26 per cent of working residents had been laid off. A total of 38 per cent told ...

Bermuda Container Line ships have picked up more than cargo for the past 28 years as they steamed between the island and New Jersey. Scientific equipment installed on the succession of vessels named Oleander has collected vital information on the he...

Free coronavirus tests for the public will be launched by the Government tomorrow. A spokeswoman said polymerase chain reaction — PCR — and antibody tests would be administered by appointment at the Southside drive-through test centre in St David’s. ...

Expertise and supplies from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences are helping the island to battle Covid-19. Rachel Parsons Biggs, a BIOS microbiologist, was seconded to Helix Bermuda, the forensics and clinical testing company where testing for th...

A nature camp that went online as a way around coronavirus lockdown has been hailed as a success. The Bermuda Zoological Society said using remote learning for its popular spring break camp would help the launch of a BZS online schools programme. Jam...

Almost three quarters of public primary schools ranked as poor or very poor in maths based on the average pupil score in a test sat last year, it has been revealed. Two schools, Heron Bay, in Southampton, and Paget Primary, had an average pupil scor...

A new maths programme will be introduced to raise standards across the island after a successful implementation at a primary school. Harrington Sound Primary School hired British firm Primal Academic Innovations to bring in a maths intervention progr...

Slavery abolition icon Mary Prince features in a new children’s card game designed as a tribute to inspirational women from around the world. Super Sapiens was created by Bermudian mother Alexa Virdi, who said it was difficult to find games that allo...

In celebration of International Women’s Day on Sunday, we summarise the accomplishments of five women who helped make a difference to Bermuda in the 20th century. Adele Tucker was born in 1868 in Warwick and became a teacher after training at the Col...

A charity set up to create opportunities in the world of science has launched a series of scholarships. The Bermuda Principles Foundation will offer five scholarships named in honour of the late Eugene Cox, a former Minister of Finance and Deputy Pre...

Failure to fix education in Bermuda would be a disservice to the trailblazers that came before, an honouree at a Black History Month celebration said. Gil Tucker said: “If we don’t fix education, I believe we will have disappointed our ancestors and...