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Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has partnered with the CFA Society of Bermuda to present a “lunch and learn” session on changes to the island’s pension legislation. Peter Sousa, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Pension Commission, will discuss the ...

Your life is not about you. It’s about everyone else whose life you touch, and the ways in which you touch it — Neale Donald Walsch As regular readers of this column may be aware, the more I progress through life the more I try to emulate the behavi...

Staff who lost their jobs at BF&M have been offered the chance to build job-hunting skills through the Department of Workforce Development. Labour minister Lovitta Foggo said the Labour Relations Section would also provide support for those made redu...

The Department of Workforce Development is advising that applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Summer Employment Programme. Successful applicants will gain well-rounded career exposure for ten weeks from June to August. The Minister of Lab...

Dear Sir, Recently, the Government of Bermuda has introduced a new standard of qualifying for work in Bermuda for speakers of other languages. While I agree that persons that serve with the public, especially waiters, etc, should be able to take ord...

A retired Bermudian who complained after eight months without pension payments said she got her money yesterday only after she took her story to The Royal Gazette. However, another senior said he had the same problem with major arrears in his monthl...

Prison officers claimed there was a “narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness” in the Government last night after they won a Supreme Court battle against changes that required them to make health insurance payments. They added that the legal action, w...

A desperate senior couple living overseas have been left unable to enjoy their retirement after months of unpaid pensions. Nearing $9,000 out of pocket, Catherine and David Gregory, from Supply, North Carolina, will soon have gone eight months withou...

As much as it might be popular to make new year’s resolutions, I have to confess that I have never actually made any. In truth, I have never understood why anyone would wait until the journey is already well under way to begin to think about startin...

In the blink of an eye it will be 2020. Some will claim it as a new decade, while others will say 2021 is the start of a new decade. Putting aside the semantics, it will be a new month and new year. The question we have to ask ourselves as individual...

A trades union has asked a court to deliver an ultimatum to a sports club — pay a $1.5 million debt or lose its building in Hamilton. The Bermuda Industrial Union has asked the Supreme Court to order Pembroke Hamilton Club to pay the cash or demand t...

In his speech to the Progressive Labour Party and in his later curtailed statement to the House of Assembly last month, David Burt provided some details on the Government’s plans to allow holders of private pension funds to withdraw a portion of the ...