A new video has been released highlighting how the Information Commissioner’s Office upholds the rights of those who request records under public access to info...
A new video has been released highlighting how the Informati...
A judge has ruled in favour of a lawyer who sued The Royal Gazette after it reported on the work he did in Bermuda for an American billionaire accused of tax ev...
A judge has ruled in favour of a lawyer who sued The Royal G...
The Premier yesterday came under fire from a previous head of government after he demanded the right to pick which journalists were allowed to interview him.
Da...
The Premier yesterday came under fire from a previous head o...
The fault lines that have emerged over Bermuda’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis and especially towards vaccination are deeply worrying.
It is easy to forget, w...
The fault lines that have emerged over Bermuda’s approach to...
A free public webinar on access to information and freedom of the press will take place today.
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez said people can see ...
A free public webinar on access to information and freedom o...
The Government is suing the Information Commissioner to avoid having to hand over records to her about the payment of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars ...
The Government is suing the Information Commissioner to avoi...
The island’s child protection department has been ordered to review a request for records about a controversial US reform school where boys were sent for more t...
The island’s child protection department has been ordered to...
Much of the world is aware of the brutal criticism levelled at the free press by the leader of the most powerful country on the planet. It has been a rough ride...
Much of the world is aware of the brutal criticism levelled ...
A culture of “weaponising” public access to information laws has emerged, the Premier claimed yesterday.
David Burt said that policy and legislative changes ha...
A culture of “weaponising” public access to information laws...
Legislation to make a government financial advisory body exempt from public access to information laws was passed on Friday.
The Public Access to Information A...
Legislation to make a government financial advisory body exe...
Dear Sir,
Thank you for the excellent editorial dated July 11, 2019, titled “Right to know here to stay”.
It is indeed very worrying that the Progressive Labour...
Dear Sir,
Thank you for the excellent editorial dated July 1...
Bermuda’s public access to information regime faces its biggest challenge since it was passed into law nine years ago.
The announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel Da...
Bermuda’s public access to information regime faces its bigg...
The Government has been ordered to make public a report into the finances of a failed sports centre that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
Information commiss...
The Government has been ordered to make public a report into...
Bermuda will host a conference for ombudsmen from across the Caribbean next week.
The 10th Biennial Caribbean Ombudsman Association Conference will take place a...
Bermuda will host a conference for ombudsmen from across the...
Governments in a deeply troubled world are struggling to operate with full transparency, which demands honest disclosures on all matters concerning the people t...
Governments in a deeply troubled world are struggling to ope...
Of all Julian Assange’s undoubted talents, maybe his greatest gift is the ability to make enemies. He trusts, likes and respects almost no one. He falls out wit...
Of all Julian Assange’s undoubted talents, maybe his greates...
A Joint Select Committee set up to investigate why protesters were pepper-sprayed by police outside Parliament in December 2016 has held all of its meetings in ...
A Joint Select Committee set up to investigate why protester...
Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingly clean” gambling jurisdiction if the industry regulator is not upfront about its own finances, over...
Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingl...
The information commissioner has backed a decision by the Government to withhold legal advice related to the island’s multimillion-dollar airport redevelopment....
The information commissioner has backed a decision by the Go...
The world has never been without grave danger for any messenger daring to tell the truth. Perhaps the ugly truth is that corruption exists whether it is in demo...
The world has never been without grave danger for any messen...
What is the main value in a free press? To hear the media tell it, as in many of the 350-plus editorials published in co-ordination last week in response to Don...
What is the main value in a free press? To hear the media te...
Throughout history, millions of people have perished as a result of being different from others. Just about every leading country has experienced dark chapters ...
Throughout history, millions of people have perished as a re...
Freedom of the press is so vital to US society that this occupation is the only one expressly safeguarded by name in the First Amendment to the Constitution: “C...
Freedom of the press is so vital to US society that this occ...
Journalism can make a positive difference. While the value of the free press is sometimes underappreciated by those who dismiss significant stories as “negative...
Journalism can make a positive difference. While the value o...
Dear Sir,
Although we have not met, I have been very impressed by the editorials you have provided on a daily basis in The Royal Gazette, but none more so than ...
Dear Sir,
Although we have not met, I have been very impress...
Speculation about the reasons for a decision, or the true cost of a project, has been elevated to a fine art after years of living without an access to informat...
Speculation about the reasons for a decision, or the true co...
