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The owners of the Fairmont Southampton will not have the redevelopment of the resort underwritten by the Government, the finance minister has said. Curtis Dickinson emphasised that no government could be expected to take on the risks of private devel...

Plans for the new session of Parliament could be hit by a lack of cash, a top economist warned last night. Craig Simmons, a Bermuda College lecturer, added that last Friday’s Throne Speech lacked detail. Mr Simmons said the speech was “ambitious”. He...

Cruise ship casinos may be able to operate 24 hours a day while berthed in Bermuda under new legislation. Casinos on ships can only open between 9pm and 5am in Bermuda’s waters at present. But cruise operators would be allowed to apply for an extensi...

An “ethics adviser” and an investigator are to be hired by to make sure politicians do not engage in “compromising activity’” that breaches parliamentary rules, the Government has announced. A new Code of Conduct said: “Members must not act or make d...

The Constitution and parts of the island’s governance are in line to be updated in the new session of Parliament, it was announced in the Throne Speech yesterday. Rena Lalgie, the Governor, who delivered the speech on behalf of the Government, said t...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has questioned why a private accounting firm has been drafted in to oversee Government’s economic recovery plan. Marcus Jones, the shadow minister for economic development, also expressed concern that the plan appe...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has described the latest employment statistics as “horrifying but not unexpected”. Jarion Richardson, the shadow labour minister, spoke out following the release of a report showing that the economy shed 1,900 jobs...

A global agreement on minimum corporate tax rates has approved an exclusion for the island’s international insurance industry. Curtis Dickinson, the minister of finance welcomed the carve-out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developm...

Frontline professionals should be forced to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the Opposition said yesterday. Scott Pearman, the acting leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, said that the Government’s campaign was “not working” and appealed for to...

Olympic gold medal-winner Flora Duffy was praised by senators during a short session of the Upper House yesterday. Supporting a proclamation that a public holiday be held on October 18 in honour of the triathlete, Independent senator Michelle Simmons...