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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...

Paediatric doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will not be available after today, according to the health department. Current stocks of the vaccine — which has been available to children from the age of 5 since February — will expire at the end of this mo...

Efforts must be made to protect the island’s care homes, the One Bermuda Alliance has said. Susan Jackson, the area MP, said she was disappointed by reports that Westmeath, the island’s largest seniors home, was struggling to address severe financial...

A cruise visitor called for Bermuda’s Travel Authorisation Form to be scrapped and replaced with a straight $40 fee after witnessing chaos caused by applications snags. A Canadian resident who travelled on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas report...

Revelations that the Government’s much criticised Travel Authorisation form is now a money-raising mechanism rather than an anti-Covid agent has intensified opposition demands for it to be scrapped. The One Bermuda Alliance has insisted the $40 char...

The highly controversial Travel Authorisation form will stay in place even if all other emergency Covid measures are dropped because the Government needs the money it generates, a senator has said. Arianna Hodgson, junior health and finance minister,...

Another person has died from Covid-19 in the past week, bringing the total number of fatalities from the virus to 138. In a statement, Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, last night extended her condolences to the family and friends of the deceased, ...

Calls for Travel Authorisation (TA) forms to be scrapped have been stepped up by the Opposition. Michael Dunkley, the shadow health minister, said the measure was a deterrent for people seeking to come to the island. The One Bermuda Alliance MP raise...

More than 30 people who took part in a two-week military training exercise in North Carolina, USA, which included the Royal Bermuda Regiment, tested positive for Covid-19, it has emerged. An RBR spokesman said that 13 people on the trip back to the i...

A drop in the number of people getting annual health checks has been noted since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the health minister said. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly yesterday that new patient preventive care check-ups in adults under ...

Dear Sir, We have been to Bermuda many times over the past 50 years and our upcoming visit is by cruise ship. As we are sailing in a few days, we had to complete our check-in process and that led me to the Bermuda Travel Authorisation form. Because ...