COVID-19 Pandemic - PLP Accomplishments

  1. Successfully contain the virus on our shores, preventing community transmission. 
  2. Created a government testing lab that enabled the Island’s testing capacity to expand dramatically with Bermuda among the leaders in the world for per capita testing, while providing testing free of charge to Bermuda residents.
  3. Quickly identified facilities that could be used to quarantine arriving passengers for two weeks and then arranged for all to be tested prior to being released to their homes. 
  4. Provided new and unprecedented support for our people economically displaced by COVID-19 with $60 million paid out in support to those who were unable to work, and over $12 million being made available to small and medium-sized businesses.
  5. Ministers of the Government took a 15% pay cut and Members of Parliament took a 12.5% reduction to share in the community sacrifice.