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Bermuda’s legislature has a revamped website which will help the public to ask MPs questions. Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker of the House, told MPs about the upgrade on Friday. The site will include a “virtual tour” through the House and the hom...

The Bermuda Monetary Authority’s regulations have been updated to keep in line with the island’s budding fintech industry. The amendments were brought to the House of Assembly on Friday by Wayne Furbert, the Junior Minister of Finance. The authority’...

MPs were slapped down for behaving like a “classroom of schoolchildren” by the Speaker of the House of Assembly yesterday. Dennis Lister Jr issued a stern warning after images of MPs asleep in the chamber circulated on social media. Mr Lister had “no...

Employment has risen, government revenues are up, spending is down and the deficit has been cut by 24 per cent, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt, also the finance minister, told the House of Assembly that “the facts totally disprove this tired ...

Duty relief for the conversion of the Grand Atlantic housing complex in Warwick into a hotel is to be debated today in the House of Assembly. The legislation, tabled by public works minister Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch this morning, seeks to exemp...

A perception of neglect at government properties has been traced to poor funding and “a lack of human resources and strategic planning”, according to Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch. Colonel Burch told the House that 59 vacant posts remained at the De...

More changes to the law on cannabis could be in the works, the Minister of Social Development and Sport has signalled. Michael Weeks said that more discussions on the island’s attitude to the drug would take place — with further liberalisation of the...

Parents will be appointed for two-year terms to committees working closely with the school system. Education minister Diallo Rabain told the House a Parental Involvement Committee had been meeting monthly with the Commissioner of Education to improve...

“Enhanced security protocols” have uncovered contraband in the island’s Corrections facilities, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security. Mr Caines added that a Corrections officer had sustained minor injuries as a result of a rec...

A commission to investigate the island’s history of “land grabs” could still take place years after it was controversially turned down. Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, told The Royal Gazette that a Commission of Inquiry into the issue rem...