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Amendments to update the Mental Health Act are to be tabled in the House of Assembly today. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, will deliver a statement explaining the amendments, which were designed to tighten the legal definition of mental illness....

Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, updated the House of Assembly this morning on the island’s disaster risk reduction and mitigation work. These included dealing with a simulated fuel spill at the airport while planes were full of passe...

A condolence book will be opened at the Hamilton Police Station tomorrow for tributes to be paid to the late former police commissioner Frederick “Penny” Bean. Mr Bean’s passing marks “a monumental loss for the Bermuda Police Service and the local co...

A controversial group linked to the Church of Scientology is to run a seminar in a leading hotel today, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The conference was organised by Dee Pearson, a Bermudian, with her husband, Don. A schedule for the seminar sent out...

Bermuda’s chief medical officer is to be released from routine administrative tasks under new legislation approved Friday by MPs. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said requirements for the job had included “wholly inappropriate” tasks. These inclu...

A surge in work-permit approvals emerged in figures provided in the House of Assembly for September through November. Work-permits applications suffered a backlog earlier this year, and the minister in charge switched on November 1 in a Cabinet reshu...

Department of Public Transportation staff have come together to support a former colleague with a donation to help with medical expenses. Today they handed a cheque for $2,260 to the family of Anthony Lodge, a former dispatcher and inspector with the...

Revenue guarantees paid to airlines should be a shared responsibility, the tourism minister has said. The move is an apparent softening of the line Zane DeSilva took in the House of Assembly last month when he insisted airport operators Skyport shoul...

The chief executive of Bermuda’s health watchdog has stepped down, it was announced Friday. The Bermuda Health Council said Tawanna Wedderburn had left the job she had held for three years. The health council added it would announce the appointment o...

From funeral homes to hospital beds, the island’s obesity crisis exacts a growing toll beyond the impact of chronic disease. According to the Bermuda Hospitals Board, a fully equipped bariatric hospital room costs $35,000 more than a standard, with s...