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The Premier was last night engulfed in a fresh crisis after a minister he claimed he fired insisted that she had quit over a series of problems. Renée Ming, who was the national security minister, said: “I resigned from the Premier’s Cabinet.” But sh...

The Governor will not automatically sign into law legislation to allow the legal growth and sale cannabis if it is ruled to be not in line with United Nations drugs conventions. Rena Lalgie is expected to be asked to approve the Cannabis Licensing Ac...

MPs are expected to debate the Cannabis Licensing Act this afternoon, a year after it was turned down by the Senate

A law to clear the criminal convictions of people caught with small amounts of cannabis has stalled because old documents often failed to quantify the amounts of drugs involved

A road map for redrawing Bermuda’s constitution will be developed in consultation with the British Government, MPs were told. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the Budget debate for the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Friday that constituti...

Juvenile court cases soared in 2021, MPs heard on Friday in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the House that new cases sent to the family courts dropped nearly one third in 2021 over the previous year. But she adde...

Bermuda’s independent watchdog against financial crime continues to fight money laundering and terrorist financing despite its “limited resources”. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said the Financial Intelligence Agency had been budgeted $1....

A final bill for repair work to a pilot boat damaged last year is still to be delivered, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, told MPs that the Department of Marine and Ports awaited “the final invoices relat...

The “irrational carnage” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be a major blow to Bermuda’s economy, an Opposition MP warned in the Budget debate. Michael Dunkley of the One Bermuda Alliance highlighted the size of Ukraine’s economy and resources and ...

The Opposition’s Budget reply was last night criticised by government MPs as too long – but short on substance. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, attacked a claim by Cole Simons’, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, that payroll tax wou...