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The Government has to get its accounts in order after “significant arrears” were found in financial statements covering a seven-year period, the Auditor-General said in a hard-hitting report released yesterday Heather Thomas said that 34 government o...

Legislation to address “major gaps” in Bermuda’s mental health system was tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said the Mental Health Amendment Bill outlined requirements for determining mental capacity, incl...

An attempt to drum up 100 jobs hit just over 60 per cent of its target, the House of Assembly heard last Friday. Wayne Caines, the national security minister, said that a jobs fair this year resulted in 61 confirmed hires. The jobs ranged from kitche...

International legal firms who set up in Bermuda will need Bermudian lawyers to tackle cases that involve island law under conditions proposed by the Government. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told the House of Assembly on Friday that the ...

The Auditor-General issued a qualified audit opinion to the Government for 2017-18 after she ruled there was insufficient evidence for $10.3 million of capital development expenditure. Heather Thomas’s decision was revealed as Curtis Dickinson, the f...

Three people have been suspended from their jobs while allegations of abuse by Child and Family Services staff are investigated, the Premier said yesterday. Mr Burt told the House of Assembly that the investigations were at “various stages” and the r...

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...

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...