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The Premier has appealed to the Governor to ask court officials to accept a 10 per cent salary cut “in the spirit of shared sacrifice”. Mr Burt confirmed that court staff had threatened industrial action over the proposed reductions. He said at Thurs...

The labour minister announced a supplementary unemployment benefit yesterday to help Bermudians who lost employment because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jason Hayward said that the scheme would assist those who were on the previous 18-week unemployment ...

Construction industry leaders are disappointed after an annual government grant set up to support training programmes was suspended because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Construction Association of Bermuda said it hoped talks with the Department of ...

For more than a year, Naje Lathan couldn’t find work. Desperate, and having tried everything else he could think of, he posted his plight on Facebook. A woman eventually offered him a job cleaning her tennis court. Naje, 22, turned it into an opportu...

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...

Laid off by the Fairmont Southampton in March, Jackson Chandranathan took it as an opportunity to help people less fortunate then himself. Throughout the lockdown period, for five days a week, the chef made his way to the kitchen at the Salvation Arm...

Together with their sponsors and partners, The Royal Gazette has cancelled the 2020 RG Business Top Ten Employers Awards Programme due to Covid-19. This programme also includes an awards ceremony which is generally held in late September. Michael Gr...

Bus service will be halted today between 10am and 1.30pm. The Department of Public Transportation said the interruption would allow talks with drivers in expectation of schools reopening next month. A spokesman said: “The temporary service interrupti...

A businessman and restaurateur has predicted an exodus of lower-skilled overseas workers will continue as the coronavirus pandemic’s economic toll increased. Marico Thomas, who runs Four Star Pizza, Glaze Bakery and Burger Shack, said he had not laid...

An apprenticeship programme where businesses take on Bermudians full-time for work experience and training has been boosted by the Government. There are now 95 apprentices with 20 firms under the earn-and-learn on-the-job training programme, run by t...

As you might imagine, the ongoing global health crisis has provided me with just about all the “me time” I can handle. Don’t get me wrong, I have been pretty upbeat about the situation for the most part and come up with all sorts of novel ways to am...

The head of the firefighters’ union said yesterday that ageing equipment and a lack of staff had helped spark a rejection of government cost-cutting proposals forced by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nakia Pearson, the president of the...