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Teachers will return to schools today after industrial action on Friday. The Ministry of Education said yesterday that all public schools would be open and ready to receive students today. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said: “I want our ...

A decision on whether schoolchildren will return to the classroom on Monday is in the hands of teachers, the education minister said last night. Diallo Rabain, speaking after teachers downed tools as part of an industrial dispute, said: “That was som...

Children were dropped at school yesterday by parents unaware that there were no teachers to look after them because of an industrial dispute. Many principals across the schools system were forced to look after 100 or more pupils before the Ministry o...

A motion to raise the retirement age goes up for debate today in the House of Assembly. Legislators heard on May 10 about plans to increase the retirement and pensionable age at the same time from 65 to 70 over a ten-year period, with the retirement ...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers has called for an emergency meeting of members to take place this morning. But the Department of Education said the union had not requested for members to have time away from work for the meeting. A spokeswoman for the d...

Bus drivers were set to begin a work to rule from 6am today, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Transport. A spokesman said the Department of Public Transportation was notified of the industrial action by the Bus Operators and Allied Workers Di...

Bus drivers could begin a work-to-rule as soon as this afternoon over longstanding problems. Chris Furbert, the Bermuda Industrial Union president, told ZBM News that workers had a divisional meeting on Monday evening, when they agreed to give the ma...

Ottiwell Simmons, the former president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has called on the Government to follow through on its pledge for an arbitration centre in his name. The labour icon and past Progressive Labour Party MP recalled the standing ova...

A nursery school shut down after a 12-month-old boy was found to have a serious head injury was told yesterday it can reopen following the conclusion of a police investigation. Prosecutors found there was “insufficient evidence to support any crimina...

The final town hall meeting to discuss a living wage will take place at the Somerset Cricket Club tomorrow. The Ministry of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport wants the views of the public on the creation of a Wage Commission and a living or minimu...

The seconded Commissioner of Corrections will not return to the crisis-hit prison service, it was revealed yesterday. The news that Lieutenant-Colonel Eddie Lamb would not go back to the job came as the House of Assembly was told that Westgate prison...

The retirement age should be increased to 70 over a ten-year period, a Labour Advisory Committee report recommended yesterday. The report, tabled in the House of Assembly, said Bermuda’s ageing population had put pressure on pension plans and public ...