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The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel has paid $11 million to the Government, which stepped in to cover redundancy payments to hundreds of staff after it shut last year, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Westend Properties, a subsidiary of US-based firm ...

Container ships Oleander and Bermuda Islander arrived on the island this morning to deliver much needed supplies. The schedules of both vessels were disrupted because of industrial action last week by dock-workers. As a result grocery stores began to...

December 2019: The Fairmont Southampton, built in 1972, is purchased by Gencom, a Miami-based hotel investment firm. Karim Alibhai, Gencom’s founder, announces plans for a substantial restoration of the island’s biggest resort. March 2020: Co...

Government today announced it planned to change the Employment Act to bar long extensions to probation periods for employees. Jason Howard said other alterations would clarify the definition of independent contractors and require employers to have m...

Hamilton dock-workers returned to work yesterday after the Government stepped in to bring six days of disruptions to an end. Staff were ordered to return to work on Tuesday night after Jason Hayward, the labour minister, referred the dispute to the L...

Hamilton dock-workers were last night ordered back to work by Labour Minister Jason Hayward after mediation efforts to end the seven-day slowdown on the docks failed. A Government statement said mediation efforts over “the last few days” had failed...

Talks to end industrial action by union workers on Hamilton docks remained deadlocked last night. Warren Jones, the chief executive of Polaris Holding Company, the parent company of Stevedoring Services, said there had been “no resolution” after 32 d...

Workers at Hamilton docks walked off the job yesterday morning after a member of staff was suspended. Warren Jones, the chief executive officer of Polaris Holding Company, the parent company of Stevedoring Services, confirmed that staff had “withdra...

Redundancy payments to ex-Fairmont Southampton workers will be honoured by the Government, the finance minister promised tonight. Curtis Dickinson said the wait for their severance packages had had a “searing impact” on about 750 staff who were laid ...

Dock-workers returned to work yesterday after talks were held to try to end a dispute that led to Stevedoring Services Limited staff downing tools this week. Discussions will continue between SSL and the Bermuda Industrial Union to consider the compa...

About 25 dockers formed a picket line at Hamilton Docks yesterday to protest against a move to outsource work. Staff from Stevedoring Services Ltd held signs including “Lies Lies!”, “Tricks” and “Workers’ Rights” from about 8am. Allan Butterfield, wh...

Stevedores are to down tools and picket the docks today in protest after the operators brought in outside staff to do mechanical work over the weekend. The news came after Stevedoring Services dockers walked off the job in Hamilton earlier yesterday ...