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A senior civil servant was told last month of concerns over a $3.2 million contract to install solar panels at the National Sports Centre. Jennifer Attride-Stirling, the permanent secretary of the ministry of sport was told about the concerns at a m...

David Burt, the Premier, has been accused of dodging Parliamentary debate on controversial Covid-19 quarantine regulations for a second time. Government tabled the order making hotel quarantines mandatory for non-immunised arrivals at the end of last...

A former chairman of the Progressive Labour Party who resigned his post after demanding that his company should be first in line for Government contracts has been awarded a $3.2 million contract by a Government quango. Damon Wade’s company, Atlantic ...

Government overpaid $3.5 million in unemployment benefits during the Covid-19 lockdowns, the finance minister admitted yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said about 2,500 people – or one in four of those who received the benefit – were overpaid an average ...

Mandatory hotel quarantining will be in place for at least another three months – despite claims by the Premier that the controversial policy could be ditched as soon as Bermuda achieves herd immunity from the Covid-19 virus. David Burt made the pled...

Senators rattled through the orders of the day in today’s Upper House yesterday, wrapping up the session in just over half-an-hour. Senator Arianna Hodgson, the junior minister of finance, presented the Economic Substance Amendment Act – the first ...

Several hundred people gathered at the Cabinet Office yesterday to present a series of demands to end travel restrictions and other Covid-19 prevention measures. The demands were presented to David Burt, the Premier, at about 11.40am. The demands,...

The Premier was last night accused of a failure to take responsibility for an about-turn on Covid-19 safety regulations that has caused confusion for Bermudians trying to get home. The One Bermuda Alliance went on the attack after David Burt denied t...

The Opposition has slammed a Government decision to introduce mandatory hotel quarantines without a debate in Parliament. Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for a protest group that questioned the legality of the order, also condemned the decision to bypass...

A fresh attack on controversial plans to enforce unvaccinated arrivals to quarantine in hotels at their own expense was mounted yesterday – from the Government side of the House of Assembly. Progressive Labour Party MPs broke ranks during a debate in...