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The most attended event in Bermuda is Cup Match. Thousands of people flock to the Annual Classic every year. There are wall-to-wall spectators at the grounds, taking up every space available. If you can visualise the crowds of people that go to the g...

Bans and restrictions on new work permits in some categories have been extended by three months, the labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward said legal clerks had been added to the closed category list but residential and commercial cleaners h...

Bermuda’s biggest bank has made staff redundant – but refused to say how many. The bank was tight-lipped on the details but it was suggested 21 jobs, and possibly more, could go. An HSBC spokeswoman would not confirm the total number of jobs lost or ...

Close to ten per cent of the Bermudian workforce was unemployed in November, the Labour Minister Jason Hayward said yesterday. He said the jobless rate for Bermudians was 9.6 per cent according to the November 2020 Labour Force Survey Report, with B...

The unemployment rate in Bermuda has almost doubled, the Minister of Labour told MPs last Friday. Jason Hayward, the labour minister told Jarion Richardson, the shadow minister, that the most recent labour report had still to be released. He added t...

The teachers’ union is prepared to fight redundancies proposed as part of a major shake-up of the schools system, the organisation’s general secretary has said. Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers said: “We have not b...

Butterfield Bank has made about 25 staff redundant because of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19. A spokesman for the bank confirmed tonight that 51 positions have been made redundant internationally because of internal restructuring, with “rough...

Staff thrown out of work by the closure of the Fairmont Southampton hotel will be helped to find jobs elsewhere, the labour minister promised yesterday. Jason Hayward said the news, announced on Wednesday, was “yet another blow to an already challeng...

Like many small businesses, my company took a massive financial hit after the outbreak of Covid-19. Gravity Payments is a credit card processor that primarily serves small and mid-sized businesses. Our cashflow depends on how many credit card transac...

An effort to boost the number of Bermudians employed in the hotel industry is to be launched, the labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward wants to increase Bermudian representation in the sector by 6.5 per cent to 80 per cent. He also hopes to ...

Layoffs and pay cuts caused in the novel coronavirus pandemic have hit people on lower incomes hardest, a survey has found. A poll by Total Research Associates said that 26 per cent of working residents had been laid off. A total of 38 per cent told ...

An outdoor activity centre for the disabled has been forced to lay off most of its staff because of the Covid-19 pandemic. WindReach, which has eight full-time employees, said it would operate with 2½ full-time equivalents from May 1 until it could r...