The Department of Planning approved the Tucker's Point design for a hotel-guest house facility with 104 rooms. The club anticipates the construction will be done in 2007.

Chief Justice Richard Ground announced that the Supreme Court will run its criminal cases back-to-back to help clear the logjam caused by Bermuda's growing violent crime. Supreme Court staff flew to England in may to assess the UK system because Bermuda's current system was not keeping pace with the number of new cases.

On May 4 the Public Transport Service announced that it would resume the Southside bus service after angry residents complained that it was cancelled without warning. A Transport Ministry spokeswoman said service to Southside was initially cancelled due to the low number of people using the route ? but that the Ministry would be reinstating the service immediately.

The project manager of Bermuda Homes for People resigned on May 4. The troubled 198-home building project was declared insolvent in March, soon after Cliff Schorer, who had the original concept for the not-for-profit scheme, resigned as project executive.

On May 3, Maxwell Burrows pulled Linda Chaves out of her burning North Shore Road home.

On May 4 Attorney General Larry Mussenden announced that fine and terms of imprisonment would rise for people caught with drugs. Fines as large as a million dollars can now be imposed and anyone caught possessing drugs three times will be automatically imprisoned for life.

On May 7 printed excerpts from the Auditor General's annual report. The Auditor General, Larry Dennis, expressed his concern about fraud and misappropriation on the Island and said there was potential for a "growing culture of opportunism or dishonesty by some within the Public Service".

On May 12 it was reported that Lt. Col. David Burch resigned as chairman of Wedco and deputy chairman of the Bermuda Housing Corporation. It was believed that he resigned because he was disillusioned, but no formal comment was made. Lt. Col. Burch is now the Housing Minister after former minister Ashfield DeVent was sacked.

On May 14 Michelle Diane Outerbridge-Smith pleaded guilty to accepting stolen bus tickets. $20,000 worth of PTB tickets were stolen from an office safe between April and May and Acting Magistrate Tyrone Chin imposed a $750 fine. He did not impose a custodial sentence because Outerbridge-Smith had been helpful during the investigation, returning all the stolen tickets and $2,000 she made from selling some of them.

27-year-old Eugene Christopher died after a road traffic accident on May 16 on Zuill's Park Road. He was the Island's eighth road death in 2005.

Peter and John Bromby were found guilty of assaulting neighbour Henry Talbot on May 18. The assault took place after Mr. Talbot bulldozed natural rock formations housing Longtail nests at Gilbert's Bay Beach. The brothers were given an absolute discharge.

The United Bermuda Party walked out of the House of Assembly on May 19 and said the Government had mounted an unprecedented attack on the right to freedom of speech. The drama unfolded when Opposition Whip John Barritt notified the Government of a motion he intended to move in the House regarding proposed housing developments on Mary Victoria and Alexandra Road.

Mr. Barritt had barely finished his sentence when Government Whip Ottiwell Simmons and Premier Alex Scott were on their feet loudly objecting to the motion. Mr. Simmons declared the motion was not proper and that the matter would be more appropriately discussed outside the House.

Speaker of the House Stanley Lowe ordered that members take a vote but Opposition members said they could not vote because they did not know what rule the Government was using to throw out the motion.

After much verbal sparring the Opposition members walked out of the House of Assembly and later said the Government was blocking the Opposition from doing its job and attacking freedom of speech.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office answered questions from the Bermuda Independence Commission regarding Independence issues. It said: "In the past, the usual practice was to withdraw British nationality from the majority of those acquiring citizenship of the new state on independence but to provide for its retention where the person concerned had a residual connection ? for example through a parent or grandparent ... We would not expect to take a different approach in Bermuda's case."