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Tragically, Bermuda is alone in the world at the top of the “red list” chart for Covid-19, and has 75 deaths as testimony to its status. I became curious about the reporting of these Covid deaths. I would go to the obituaries section of the newspaper...

Fixed penalties for Covid-19 curfew breakers have come into force – with $500 fines for offenders. Legislation to allow fixed penalties for breaches of Covid-19 regulations was approved in March, but only came into effect this week. A spokeswoman for...

Please, please, please, please ... I am not one who typically begs, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Thirty-eight people died in Bermuda during the month of September. Our morgue is overwhelmed, such that our dead are being ke...

Co-operation between employers and staff would boost the effectiveness of workplace coronavirus test policies, lawyers have advised. Gambrill Robinson, an associate at Canterbury Law, said if tests were mandated, managers should think about how they ...

Kudos to the 100 or more medical doctors who have come together in urging local residents to join this life-saving campaign by being vaccinated for Covid-19. Given the unprecedented death rate that our island is facing, the open letter signed off on ...

Bermuda’s bus service will adopt a variation of its Sunday schedule seven days a week from today as it works to address staff shortages. A spokeswoman for the Department of Public Transport said the change will continue until October 17, with some ad...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has cut back the opening hours of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre to bolster resources at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The UCC in St David’s will run from 5pm to 10pm on weekdays for at least two weeks from tomorro...

Vaccine mandates work. Just ask New York governor Kathy Hochul, whose state gave roughly 600,000 healthcare workers until Monday to get a Covid-19 jab or lose their jobs. Much naysaying ensued, accompanied by predictions that doctors, nurses, orderli...

The task of regrouping after a devastating pandemic that has ravaged countries around the world with widespread death, taking a heavy toll on economies, and creating a nightmare for education systems has been a Herculean one. Children have been unabl...

More health professionals have opted to take the Covid-19 vaccination, Bermuda Hospitals Board Chief of Staff said yesterday. At a press conference this afternoon, Wesley Miller said that 76 per cent of registered and enrolled nurses, including c...

The Opposition has welcomed a decision to drop a policy that forced non-vaccinated travellers to quarantine in approved centres. But the One Bermuda Alliance asked the Government to provide details on how much the controversial policy had cost taxpay...