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The battle to save the Corporation of Hamilton is to go to Bermuda’s highest court of appeal, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Corporation of Hamilton is to lodge an appeal with the Privy Council in London in a last-ditch attempt to block government...

Britons who have lived abroad for more than 15 years will get the right to vote in British general elections after a legal change was passed in the House of Lords. British citizens at present lose the right to vote if they have been abroad for more t...

The Senate heard that “smoking weed” should not be seen as normal as the Upper House split down the middle on a vote yesterday on whether to legalise cannabis. The vote on the second reading of the Cannabis Licensing Act 2022 was tied — but under pa...

Children in care will be given a stronger voice through a new body of experts that will listen to their concerns, it has been claimed. Tinee Furbert, the minister for social affairs, made the pledge when introducing the Children Amendment Act 2022 in...

It will be legal to grow and sell cannabis – if controversial legislation passed in the House of Assembly yesterday gets Royal Assent from the Governor. The Cannabis Licensing Act 2022 would create a regulated framework for growth and sale of the dru...

A government backbencher was told last night he would have to apologise after he made a “monkey” reference believed to be about another MP. Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, appealed to parliamentarians to think about how they repr...

An Opposition senator yesterday accused the Government of time-wasting to dodge debate on the new Budget. Douglas De Couto, of the One Bermuda Alliance, claimed that the Government side ate up time by reading out unnecessary details about their portf...

A new senator went on the attack as he delivered his maiden speech in the Upper House yesterday. Douglas De Couto, of the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance, said that minor reductions in taxes were “trinkets” handed out by the Government to distract f...

Plans to turn the Corporations of Hamilton and St George into quangos look likely to go ahead after a Court of Appeal ruling

Car licence fees will be cut from April 1 after legislation was passed in the House of Assembly tonight. Drivers will see the cost of an annual vehicle licence cut by 10 per cent after MPs backed the Motor Car Amendment Act 2022. The amendment, pres...