Bermuda Hospitals Board has apologised and paid compensation to a widower whose late wife was given a substance which was the subject of public health warnings and may have contributed to her death.
A...
Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985.
Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she ...
A life-saving drug used to reverse heroin overdoses can now be administered by all emergency medical technicians in Bermuda without a doctor’s approval after hospital chiefs acted on a coroner’s recom...
A legal battle between Bermuda Hospitals Board and a patient who suffered an agonising wait for surgery has attracted the attention of lawyers for Britain’s national health service.
The NHS Litigation...
Citizens were encouraged yesterday to submit freedom of information requests even when they believe the records they request may not be released.
Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez, in a liv...
Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez will take part in a live online question and answer session with The Royal Gazette this morning and she is urging the public to log on and get involved.
Ms...
The Bermuda Government has received 62 public access to information requests and police have received 31 during the first six months of the law coming into force.
Michael Dunkley revealed the figure f...
An office set up four years ago to strengthen financial accountability in government has only half the staff it needs, it has been revealed.
And a suitable candidate to lead the Office of Project Mana...
Public authorities will be encouraged to take a very “user-friendly” approach when it comes to public access to information (Pati) requests, a meeting heard last night.
Information commissioner Gitanj...
Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said...
