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A dentist fears plans to involve dental health practitioners in coronavirus antigen tests for travellers could undermine safety standards in surgeries. Ronda James, a former head of the Bermuda Dental Board, said the Bermuda Health Council had failed...

A petition backing the Government’s science adviser attracted hundreds of new signatures over the weekend in the wake of her resignation. More than 8,000 people had shown their support for Carika Weldon on Change.org by yesterday afternoon. The petit...

Dear Sir, David Tavares’ letter in today’s Royal Gazette is right on the money. If more people ask the same questions, might we be more likely to get answers? If voters start asking their MPs these questions, will we get answers? I wrote to my MP ...

A woman who appealed to the public for help to pay for overseas medical treatment said she was over the moon after she exceeded her £6,500 goal – $7,787 – in only a week. Mickia Brangman raised £6,875 through a GoFundMe page to help her enrol in a s...

The loss of the Government’s science adviser and head of its Covid-19 test lab in just 18 days’ time will have no effect on the lab’s performance, the health minister declared yesterday. Kim Wilson said the resignation of Carika Weldon, the executive...

Dear Sir, Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and I find myself still unable to answer what I feel is a relatively straightforward question: Who exactly is benefiting from the government’s mandated PCR over-testing [and over-quarantining] re...

Public school pupils will be able to return to the classroom after taking a coronavirus antigen test at home instead of a PCR test. Tinée Furbert, the Acting Minister of Education, said the change will be phased in from next week. Antigen tests have ...

A clinic has run out of PCR tests because of a breakdown in the supply chain. The Northshore Medical and Aesthetics Centre said that it could still perform antigen tests but that PCR tests had been stopped until fresh test kits were available. A spok...

“Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.” – Confucius Bermuda, before we heard the terms flatten the curve, social distance, quarantine, lock down or curfew, David Burt made a speech in 2019 at the Fairmont Southampton Resort where he told B...

Presumably recharged from his Christmas vacation, David Burt tried to regain control of the agenda this week. Politically this was a necessity after the Covid-19 testing debacle that followed the Christmas and new year’s holidays and continues to wr...

Like the vast majority of Bermudians, I was disappointed in hearing that Carika Weldon had recently submitted her resignation, especially having experienced the pleasure of some limited collaboration with this unique young woman prior to the pandemic...