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Matt Francis and Somers Carr, of The Blind Pig Cocktail Company, had a busy summer planned. Their cocktail catering business was almost fully booked, but the Covid-19 pandemic put the drinks business on ice. Mr Francis said: “We do a lot of corporate...

A watersports business that faces a diminished summer season because of the Covid-19 crisis is hoping locals will take on-island staycations and experience the fun it offers for themselves. BDA Water Sports was geared up for a bumper year as it moved...

Tables and chairs have been set up on City Hall lawn in the heart of Hamilton in a bid to encourage people to spend cash on takeout food from restaurants. A spokeswoman for the city said the move was a part of a drive to support businesses affected b...

Rosewood Bermuda has reopened its Sul Verde restaurant for members and visitors to enjoy al fresco dinner on the terrace, or kerbside takeout. It is part of the resort’s first phase of reopening following Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. It has also o...

Social distances at businesses will be enforced as part of the second phase of relaxed Covid-19 restrictions, the national security minister warned today. Wayne Caines said that, although stores have been allowed to open their doors and restaurants h...

Superyachts will be allowed to drop anchor in Bermuda waters despite Covid-19 restrictions, under a policy approved by Cabinet. Zane DeSilva, the tourism minister, said the Bermuda Tourism Authority estimated allowing luxury vessels into island water...

A bid to boost the hard-hit restaurant business will serve up a second course next week. For the Bermuda Tourism Authority said it will promote the second Great Bermuda Takeout Day next Thursday. Victoria Isley, the BTA’s chief sales and marketing of...

Stakeholders are looking to expand alfresco dining to give as many restaurants as possible the chance to reopen. Recognising that outdoor service is an impossibility for some eateries, the hope is to find a way to open up “streets, sidewalks and publ...

Dear Sir, I appreciated your May 12 editorial, “Doing the unthinkable”, and want to expound on two aspects of it to zero in on what the tourism and hospitality industry — specifically restaurants — may look like in the near future. First, your opini...

Bermuda may be closed to visitors, but the Bermuda Tourism Authority has already begun to highlight the island as a post-Covid destination. A BTA spokeswoman said the body has already worked with lifestyle and travel magazines, newspapers and televis...

The Premier complained last night that negotiations with unions and employers’ associations had got into the public domain. An angry David Burt lamented the release of sensitive negotiations with unions being shared with the public, as he revealed th...

Some hotels will shut for good if the Government fails to give the industry a break on employment overheads, industry leaders have warned the Premier. The Bermuda Hotel Association asked for an extension of the 12-week unemployment benefits programme...