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New Company Registry System

The Registrar of Companies is launching the first phase of its new online company registry system on June 7, 2021. This new online registry will allow the public to view all corporate registers maintained by the Registrar of Companies.…

COVID-19 Daily Release 17 May 2021

The Ministry of Health received 3359 test results since the last update, and 11 were positive for COVID-19, giving a test positivity rate of 0.3%. These results are from testing done on Thursday (2 positive out of 1160 results (0.2% positivity…

Employment Amendment (No2) Act: Policy Statement on Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Good day to all members of the media and the listening public. 

As announced in November 2020, Bermuda’s Labour Code, which consists of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 2021 and the Employment Amendment (No2)…

February 2021 Retail Sales Report

~ RSI growth in February 2021 is the 8th consecutive month of increase ~

Today, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Hon. Wayne Furbert released the February 2021 Retail Sales, which indicated that the overall…

BELCO To Reduce Electricity Retail Rates

The Minister of Home Affairs, the Hon. Walter Roban has responded favourably to the Regulatory Authority's (RA's) announcement today that electricity retail rates will be reduced. He fully supports this announcement as this achieves the…

Premier visits latest mobile vaccine site

~ To date, more than 1,000 vaccinces given as part of the Close to Home mobile programme ~

Earlier today (May 16), 143 people were vaccinated at the Victor Scott Primary School as part of the Close to Home mobile…

BAMZ to Reopen to the Public

The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo (BAMZ) has partly reopen to the public on Wednesday, 12 May after the most recent closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Flatts area attraction shut its doors on March 29 after an…

Bermuda Beeswax Gets an International Launch

The Minister of Home Affairs, the Hon. Walter Roban, JP MP celebrates Bermuda's partnership with MIT in the releasing of Bermuda beeswax as part of an initiative with their space programme.

MIT Media Lab and the Ministry have a…

COVID-19 Daily Release 14 May 2021

The Ministry of Health received 946 test results since the last update, and four were positive for coronavirus, yielding a test positivity rate of 0.4 %. 

Three of the new cases are classified as local transmission with known contact…

Review of Pilot Boat St. David Crash

The Ministry of Transport can confirm that the pilot boat, St. David, was involved in a crash with a reef off of the Northeast Breaker Beacon on Thursday, May 6th, 2021 at 6:48am.

The St. David was on a training exercise en-route to the…