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Updates to Public Access to Information Act have gone before Parliament. It includes a cutting down of the response time for public authorities to give information. Michael Dunkley told MPs there had been 75 Pati requests so far: 15 have been directe...

Parliament will soon debate a motion to look into “serious allegations of extortion and bribery made against sitting ministers of the Government”. The motion was brought by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert in an earlier session of the House of Assembly. R...

Bermuda’s success as a financial services jurisdiction has been boosted by the Solvency II equivalence for the local insurance market. The Solvency II directive introduces “a modernised risk-based regulatory regime for insurance and reinsurance under...

A prominent opponent of same-sex marriage has been invited to the Island by the group Concerned Citizens of Bermuda. Ryan Anderson, who is a member of the conservative American think-tank the Heritage Foundation, lectures on the constitutional implic...

The practice of restraining or drugging people with dementia is a violation of their human rights that is “absolutely, completely unacceptable”, an international advocate for those with Alzheimer’s has said. Johan Vos, the deputy executive director o...

A few students at the Bermuda High School suffered minor injuries earlier today when part of the ceiling collapsed in a classroom, according to Linda Parker, the head of school. The fall occurred during a Year 8 English class, Ms Parker said. “As the...

Bermuda is bidding to host the annual Global Entrepreneurship Congress in 2018, the Senate heard this morning. The GEC has been hosted by Kansas City, Dubai, Shanghai, Liverpool, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Milan since its creation in 2009. “Future co...

The Immigration Appeals Tribunal, an independent body created in 2011, will publish its judgments online commencing on Friday. The IAT had been left without governing regulations for more than a year after its creation, with 44 cases waiting to be he...

Fewer than ten garbage collection trucks were in operation on any given week during recent months, the Senate heard this morning. An average of 407 tons of waste was picked up each week around the Island. Details came from Lynne Woolridge, the Junior...

The Progressive Labour Party would make good on its vow to eliminate middle schools if returned to power, replacing them with “five-year decentralised high schools”. Some middle schools, such as the Whitney Institute and Clearwater, would become seni...