Employers who do not fulfil their legal obligation to provide health insurance cover for their staff will end up being named online, under steps pledged in yesterday’s Throne Speech.
Economic troubles...
A Government pledge to offer mediation to parents involved in custody or access disputes should come as welcome news for the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
Earlier this week, the organisati...
“Balanced and appropriate for the times we are living in” was the verdict yesterday for the Throne Speech, from the Bermuda Public Services Union.
After an uncompromising standoff from unions over the...
The latest Throne Speech offered little beyond “maintenance of the status quo”, according to Progressive Labour Party head Marc Bean, who said the One Bermuda Alliance had failed to include ordinary c...
The Bermuda High School for Girls is now the Island’s only school to be accredited by the Council of International Schools, BHS announced this morning.
It comes after an evaluation of the school’s eth...
A cruise ship worker involved in a plot to smuggle $53,000 worth of cocaine into Bermuda has lost an appeal of his jail sentence.
Jamaican national Delroy Duncan was imprisoned for nine years in June,...
Springtime arrivals from cruise ships were up ten percent on the previous year’s figures, but air arrivals in the second quarter dropped by 2.5 percent, with a total of 73,122 visitors coming through ...
Government may have scrapped the National Health Plan that was expected, but a Bermuda Health Plan has been proposed for the fresh sitting of Parliament.
Health Minister Jeanne Atherden had made brief...
A doctor who used his cell phone while driving has been convicted of the offence, despite his argument that he was responding to a medical emergency.
However, surgeon Christopher Johnson, a former cha...
Rainy weather expected for tomorrow means the Throne Speech will be held indoors at the Cabinet building and closed to the public because of limited space.
Governor George Fergusson’s reading of the T...
