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A bid by Opposition senators to make Hamilton docks an essential service was defeated in the Upper House yesterday afternoon. A vote on the question was taking during debate on the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 2020. A second...

A second government department has rented office space from a company linked to a Progressive Labour Party MP – at a cost of almost $800,000 a year. The Department of Child and Family Services has signed a five-year contract with F&E Holdings, where ...

Senators rubber-stamped a number of Government bills during a brisk, virtual session of the Upper House yesterday morning. Streamlining and improved efficiency were the themes of three Acts that were given their second and third readings before being...

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly has launched an attack on the last Governor and police service and compared them to a lynch mob. Derrick Burgess said reports that Ewart Brown, a former Progressive Labour Party premier, was to face corrup...

A Government Senator claimed yesterday that the transfer of the L Frederick Wade International Airport to a public private partnership was directly connected to the financial struggles some Bermudians are facing now. Owen Darrell, the junior minist...

Most homeowners will not see an increase in land tax bills next year after the Government postponed a review of property values in the wake of the Covid-19 economic crisis, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The tax is calculated on the annual rental valu...

Last month's General Election cost the taxpayer almost $700,000, it has been revealed. But Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, highlighted that the figure was much less than critics had predicted after Premier David Burt had called the snap p...

The Government’s predicted Budget deficit of $19.8 million has ballooned to $295 million, the finance minister revealed today. Curtis Dickinson said the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to cost Government hundreds of millions of dollars and present Be...

Almost one third of the Island’s 1,400 Permanent Resident Certificate holders have applied for status in the past five months, according to Government. The Ministry of Home Affairs released the figure yesterday after earlier failing to provide inform...

The One Bermuda Alliance’s decision to appoint a former civil servant as a media consultant has been condemned by the Opposition. Magnus Henagulph was taken on by the ruling party last week after quitting his post at the Department of Communications ...