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Bermuda has one of the best Covid-19 testing regimes in the world, according to the Premier. David Burt added that countries were following Bermuda as a model to improve their own testing rates. Mr Burt was speaking at the official opening of a new p...

The health minister has said she has “grave concerns” about the financial impact of Covid-19 on the healthcare system. Kim Wilson warned that there was a risk that the Bermuda Hospitals Board would “not be able to sustain its existing service nor und...

Proposed spending cuts included in the 2021/22 Budget statement could be tough to maintain, an economist warned yesterday. Peter Everson, a businessman and former president of the Chamber of Commerce, said: “The hard part, as always, is will the Gove...

Major changes to Bermuda’s tax structure are needed to reduce the cost of living, according to the Premier. David Burt said at the Progressive Labour Party annual conference that difficult conversations may be needed to create a fairer tax system – o...

Members of the public should trust medical experts over vaccinations, an author for one of the world’s top medical journals said yesterday. Kieran Walsh, the clinical director of the British Medical Journal’s BMJ Best Practice, said that more effort ...

Standardised fees helped to deliver a cut in the spend on hospital services from 2017 to 2018, the Bermuda Health Council said today. Tiara Carlington, a project manager for public health research and programmes, said the change was a significant fin...

A warning to people tempted to breach strict quarantine regulations was issued by the health minister today. Kim Wilson – speaking after two visitors from the US were fined after they broke isolation yesterday to go to a wedding – said: "Although it ...

Dear Sir, The dentist Ronda James wrote an excellent Letter to the Editor entitled “Health plan grandstanding” published on Tuesday, which, among other things, made a connection between the coronavirus crisis and the proposed healthcare reforms advoc...

A teenager who spent her childhood in foster care said the dedication of social workers and foster families helped her turn her life around. Tylasha DeSilva, 18, added that the kindness she had experienced had fuelled her desire to work in social ser...

Dear Sir, A multifaceted universal healthcare plan that brings down the cost of healthcare and makes us healthier, needs to implement all parts of the plan in unison. Instead, the Permanent Secretary of Health, the Bermuda Health Council and the Min...

Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday. Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...

David Burt has challenged the pressure group Patients 1st to reveal its identity and meet with him over its campaign against proposed changes to the health insurance system. Speaking in the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, the Pr...