Could your day get worse? You’ve just stolen a bike from where it was parked at train station. It was a piece of cake because you used a grinding wheel – which you had also stolen. You make off with the bike easy-peasy. But oh no, here come the police. It appears that an SNCB employee was watching...

Missing someone during quarantine and want to tell them with a special message? Public transport service Stib invites you to create a recording as part of Voices of Brussels. Yes, we can all make video calls, but Stib is offering a surprise for your sweetheart, mum, bestie or anyone else you can’t...

With seasonal farm workers unable to travel to Flanders to help with harvests, the government is encouraging locals to step in and help. A website has been launched to match vacancies with people, particularly those temporarily unemployed because of the coronavirus crisis. Like many other western...

Coronavirus-related measures mostly have a negative impact when it comes to doing business. But there are exceptions. As people are asked to stay home, the video game industry is benefiting from their isolation and boredom. Steam, the video game digital distribution service has recently set a new...

The first staff and residents at some of the 800 care homes in Flanders have been tested for Covid-19, as the country works to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Beginning with the most vulnerable groups, the aim is to test all care home residents and staff. Early results reported by VRT show...

In the first of a series reporting on Belgium’s frontline workers, the Bulletin talks to some of the people braving the Covid-19 pandemic. From treating patients, maintaining services for the public and looking after society’s most vulnerable people, these key workers are struggling to contain the...

Police arrested around 100 people over the weekend following protests in Anderlecht provoked by the death of a 19-year-old man, report local media. Brussels-Midi police chief Patrick Evenpoel said 65 people were arrested on Saturday evening and early Sunday morning as police regained control of the...

Almost 10,000 volunteers from Red Cross Flanders are ready to be deployed in the region’s rest homes. By taking on logistical and basic nursing tasks, they will be able to reduce the pressure on rest home staff during the coronavirus crisis. Belgium’s capacity to test for Covid-19 infections has...

Using mobile phone data to track people’s movements and possible exposure to the coronavirus would be acceptable for around half of the population of Flanders, according to a survey published this week. The results also show a large majority worried about abuse of their data after the crisis is...

While in Boussu, supermarket-goers must enter through the ‘disinfection tunnel’, in Brussels, they are invited to visit the ‘StaySafe cabin’. The new installations are the first of their kind in Belgium, though likely not the last. The Intermarché in Boussu, Hainaut province, opened up its...