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Income inequality and its connection to racial disparities must be addressed to help combat gun crime, a government MP claimed yesterday. Rolfe Commissiong, whose Pembroke South East constituency has been hit by violence over the past decade, feared ...

A network of privacy experts could develop in Bermuda after the introduction of legislation designed to protect personal information, the island’s new Privacy Commissioner has predicted. Alexander White explained that the sector was a “boom industry”...

Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday. Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...

Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Residents highlighted greater support for the underprivileged, seniors and people with mental health problems as areas for improvement as The Royal Gazette hit the streets of Hamilton to canvass views on the Progressive Labour Party’s performance in ...

Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed. Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”. The senior economics lecturer at Ber...

Young people are to get the chance to voice their views to the Premier at a public meeting next week. David Burt said he had gauged interest in the event on his Twitter feed before he announced it will take place on Tuesday from 5.30pm. The “open con...

A tearful mother who has already lost a son to gun crime begged for help yesterday, after another of her children was shot and wounded in an attack at the family home. Nicole Fox made an emotional plea for support, hours after her house in Pembroke w...

The island’s first privacy watchdog said he planned to visit community groups to find out how the collection of personal information affected people. Alexander White will also canvass businesses as he considers what should be included in guidelines f...