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Changes to the Travel Authorisation process for passengers of three cruise lines were announced by the Minister of Health yesterday. Kim Wilson said that those travellers no longer needed to upload negative coronavirus test results and instead had th...

Leaders in health have urged residents not to quit measures introduced to help protect against Covid-19. Wesley Miller, the Bermuda Hospitals Board Chief of Staff, and Ayoola Oyinloye, the island’s Chief Medical Officer, highlighted yesterday the imp...

The term “pandemic puppy” refers to any puppy born and acquired during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is well known that during the first lockdown there was a huge increase in the demand for puppies. Shelters in Britain recorded a 225 per cent increase i...

Another 343 new positive Covid-19 cases have been reported, it was announced last night. The cases were confirmed among 9,203 test results received by the health ministry from last Tuesday to Monday, representing a four per cent test positivity rate....

A representative of the Pan American Health Organisation met with officials on the island this week to discuss health challenges facing Bermuda. Ian Stein, PAHO’s representative to Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, left the island yesterday af...

Tourism boss Wayne Caines has backed the decision to keep the Travel Authorisation form – but pledged that the process would be made less cumbersome. Mr Caines, who is the chairman of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, admitted that inefficiencies such ...

Legislation to give payroll tax relief for care homes has been backed by MPs. David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, said that Westmeath and Lefroy House already receive relief, but the Land Valuation and Tax Amendment Act would allow all o...

Dear Sir, My family and I were planning to have a holiday in Bermuda this year, but then I noticed a Bermuda Government travel restriction concerning children of 12 and over; ie, “all visitors aged 12 and over arriving by sea or air must be fully vac...

Dear Sir, I have just returned home from a trip to Bermuda and will not visit the island again until you all get your act together in regard to the required “Travel Authorisation”. The form was very difficult to figure in terms of how to fill it out...

The Government has once again defended its controversial Travel Authorisation policy, insisting that the form "serves a vital role by protecting our community and by helping to prevent Covid-19 from being imported“. But Vance Campbell, the Minister o...

The Government’s controversial Travel Authorisation policy has been condemned as “an exercise in annoying bureaucracy that creates anxiety” in a review of a cruise trip to Bermuda. The review of the trip on board the Celebrity Summit liner from New...

More than 15,000 cases of Covid-19 have now been logged in Bermuda since the start of the pandemic, government figures released last night show. In the latest weekly update, the Ministry of Health said it has received 9,343 test results, and 330 were...