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A parent has challenged the education minister over the need for schoolchildren to be tested for Covid-19 before they can be taught in a classroom. Peter Sanderson, the lawyer for the man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the Supreme ...

A former science adviser to the Government said she was “drained” from tension that arose during planning for the return of public schools after Christmas. Carika Weldon told Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, that she wanted to speak on behal...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 numbers continued to fall last night with a drop of 36 to 241 from the 277 active cases recorded last Thursday. There were ten people in hospital, one of them in intensive care. The island’s death toll from Covid-19 rose to 127 at ...

An official suffered verbal abuse from some parents when children were being screened to attend schools, a testing coordinator told senior civil servants. Tarik Bean-Darrell urged the Department of Education to address the problem when it emerged las...

Mask-wearing and other mandates in schools will be optional under relaxed Covid-19 restrictions

Strict Covid-19 restrictions on schoolchildren are having a negative economic impact on Bermuda as parents opt to leave the island for more lenient jurisdictions, a senator has said. Ben Smith, the Opposition Senate Leader, said during the last Senat...

The island logged another Covid-19 death last night, which pushed the pandemic death toll to 127. But the number of active cases has dropped for the first time in several weeks. There were 123 new cases recorded since Monday’s update and 157 recoveri...

The head of a private school and its chairwoman last night appealed for a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for children and warned that the education system was close to breaking point. Linda Parker, the head teacher at BHS, and Celia Powell, the ...

The go-ahead for people to get a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was given last night. The fourth dose booster shot is to be targeted at the vulnerable, including people aged over 65, rest home residents and anyone with suppressed immune systems....

People enduring financial hardship because of the coronavirus pandemic will have another chance to dip into their pensions

The number of Covid-19 cases jumped to 312 yesterday, an increase of 41 or 15 per cent since last Thursday

A husband and wife accused of breaching Covid-19 quarantine rules will go to trial in June – almost a year after they were first charged