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Some workers laid off because of the coronavirus have yet to get unemployment benefits from an emergency programme that started in March, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Several out-of-work residents vented their frustration yesterday because they have...

An “unemployment pandemic” caused by the coronavirus outbreak will prove doubly traumatic for families already living from paycheque to paycheque, according to Sandy De Silva, director of services at the charity Family Centre. Dr De Silva said job lo...

A return to a large-scale “hustle economy” will be one of the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastation of the economy, an employers’ representative has warned. Keith Jensen, the president of the Bermuda Employers Council, said ther...

Not too long ago many older people were quite comfortable sitting back and letting someone else programme the VCR or set up their voicemail recording. The mere suggestion that they should learn to “Google”, or get an e-mail address or a mobile phone ...

People who have felt the pinch as a result of the Covid-19 shutdown can take up to $12,000 from their private pension funds after the legislation was fast-tracked in the House of Assembly yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said the Go...

“There is no greater challenge and there is no greater honour than to be in public service” — Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State I often read online and social-media comments regarding the call for civil servants’ wages and salaries to ...

Pembroke residents who have hit hard times because of the Covid-19 pandemic have been offered some relief by the area’s parish council. A spokeswoman for Pembroke Parish Council said the body had set up a $6,000 pandemic relief fund to help seniors a...

About 200 hundred restaurant workers will be back on the job this weekend after takeout and delivery services were given the green light to restart. However, it was predicted that many restaurants will stay shut — with their future viability in the b...

Donald Lottimore, the president of the Bermuda Trade Union Congress, urged against going back to business as usual after the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Lottimore said Bermuda must be run for people and not for profit in a statement released to mark Intern...

More than 2,500 people out of work because of Covid-19 should have received their first emergency benefits payments by yesterday. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said that the Accountant-General had paid out more t...

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted “deep-rooted inequities and gaps in our country’s social safety net”, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union said tonight. Armell Thomas, speaking on the eve of International Workers’ Day, asked the G...

Social services agencies have seen jobless clients struggle because of delays to the delivery of unemployment benefits. The Government’s benefits scheme was launched four weeks ago as Bermudians felt the pinch after mass layoffs in the wake of the co...