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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...

A clampdown on unscrupulous employers who fail to foot the bill for overseas workers who returned home was signalled by the labour minister at the weekend. Jason Hayward reminded company owners that they were obliged to pay for tickets home for peopl...

Police officers claimed yesterday that the Government had “repeatedly moved the goalposts” in its cost-cutting negotiations with their representative body. Inspector Emmerson Carrington, the chairman of the Bermuda Police Association, defended the se...

The Premier felt “profound disappointment” when unions for two uniformed services rejected a government cost-cutting package in the wake of the financial crisis cause by the Covid-19 pandemic. David Burt said yesterday that other steps to make saving...

Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today. Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...

Digital nomads with permission to work from Bermuda under a new one-year residential certificate could start to arrive as early as next week, the Premier said last night. David Burt was speaking after Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the f...

The Ministry of Labour is pleased to announce that through a collaboration with Pro-Tone Cleaning Services Ltd (PT), and Bermuda Cleaning Limited (BC), twelve Bermudians will have the opportunity to secure full-time employment over the next six month...

We have recently witnessed the departure of scores of expatriate workers returning to their homeland. More than 60 Portuguese nationals quit the island in a special repatriation flight because they had lost their jobs. Reports suggest many more are w...

The Government’s unemployment benefits have been upped from 16 weeks to 18 weeks. David Burt announced the extension yesterday. The next payments are set for the week after Cup Match, the Premier added. The benefits period will end at different times...

The Government broke ground yesterday on what will be a new international arbitration centre developed as part of a public-private partnership. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch announced the construction of the Ottiwell Simmons International Arbitratio...

Expatriate hotel workers said yesterday they were “heartbroken” to leave the island after more than a decade as they sold off household items. Staff at the Fairmont Southampton said up to 150 expatriate workers had started to pack their bags as layof...