The Isle of Man Examiner this week reports comments from the boss of a care home who’s desperate for more help after the coronavirus hit residents.

The paper reveals more.

Also this week:

Tributes to the two men from the island who have died from the virus.

The Health Minister underlines why people repatriated to the island are being forced into quarantine.

Two are jailed for breaking Covid-19 laws.

There will be a relaxation of GDPR rules for the government because of the crisis.

The price of petrol has slumped.

We join the ’swab squad’ working at the Grandstand, who are carrying out coronavirus tests.

Pollution near Peel is the result of the virus. Read why.

The old Raymotors garage in Ramsey is now open again.

A teachers’ union says it is ’deeply concerned’ about some aspects of the Education Department’s response to the Covid crisis.

A number of organisations have banded together to create Helpout.im, which supports those in need across the island.

It may not have been the weekend they wanted to organise, but the island’s railway volunteers put on a great show over the Easter weekend. We reveal how.

The closure of the Douglas borough and lawn cemeteries was an ’unavoidable’ decision that had to be taken, council leader David Christian says.

Ramsey Grammar School pupils share what they’ve been doing during the pandemic lockdown in a project inspired by a similar one in the Second World War.

Meanwhile, children at Manor Park School are burying time capsules with messages and memories from their time away from school during the coronavirus lockdown. And Kewaigue pupils have been keeping in touch with video conferencing.

Two pages of photos of youngsters and their rainbow paintings.

Sartfell Cottage was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ North West award last year and was shortlisted for RIBA’s House of the Year 2019. But now it is the centre of a court battle.

Commissioners in Garff have delayed responding to controversial plans to build a sewage treatment plant in the heart of Laxey.

Seven workers who were subject to an ’atmosphere for intimidation’ at a care company have been awarded a total of just under £14,000 by an employment tribunal.

In our look back at this week in history, we picture the front page of the Isle of Man Daily Times from 1959.

The Crosby Hotel public house has re-opened as a pop-up community shop

In our business coverage, an island employment lawyer has spelled out caution to employers not to use the virus crisis as a convenient way of bypassing unfair dismissal laws.

Phil Cringle’s professional rugby career hangs in the balance after the coronavirus pandemic compounded earlier funding cuts to his club, our sports team reports

Plus there are your letters, our popular crossword, planning notices, property sales and lots of community news.

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