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The Minister of Education will be able to hand pick the deputy chairman of the Board of Education if a proposed law is approved by the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain tabled the Education Amendment (No. 2) Act 2021 in the House of Assembly yesterday...

Government senators have been accused of being unprepared after they failed to take part in a debate on the future of development. During yesterday’s session of the Upper House, Lindsay Simmons, the junior minister for home affairs presented The Berm...

Government yesterday launched a fresh drive to help unemployed Bermudians get back to work. Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the economic stimulus programme scheme would help Bermudians to undertake short-term job placements and get on-the...

Only members or former supporters of a union can will be able to trigger a ballot on whether a workplace should retain union representation, government confirmed yesterday. Under labour relations laws proposed last year, both supporters and former op...

Hundreds of people forced out of work by the latest Covid-19 lockdown have waited weeks for unemployment benefits from the Government, The Royal Gazette can reveal. One source, who asked not to be named, wrote to David Burt, the Premier, after a mont...

Government has paid out more than $5 million in unemployment benefits in the last six months as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Curtis Dickinson the Minister of Finance, revealed the figure in a statement last night. It came in response to claims...

Employers could have to pay at least $17.30 an hour to staff if recommendations from the Wage Commission are adopted, it was revealed yesterday. Cordell Riley, the chairman of the commission, unveiled three options for a minimum hourly wage – $13.20,...

The acting US Consul General has left the island after just three months in the post, it was announced today. Alan Purcell, a career diplomat, came to Bermuda at the end of January after the election of Democrat Joe Biden as US president. It is under...

The Government yesterday proposed a law to outlaw “revenge porn” – the use of social media to spread intimate sexual images. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said the practice was “a new form of technology-facilitated abuse” which humiliated...

More than $350 million in unpaid taxes and fees is owed to the Government, the Minister of Finance revealed yesterday. Curtis Dickinson warned that almost half the cash would probably never be collected. He was responding to questions from Opposition...