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A raft of business legislation will go before MPs today in the House of Assembly, as well as a Bill tightening the island’s crime-fighting regime. MPs are set to debate the Companies Amendment (No. 2) Act 2017, along with the Payroll Tax Amendment (N...

Assertions that the One Bermuda Alliance overspent on the America’s Cup were attacked as “political grandstanding” and “pathetic” by Grant Gibbons, the Shadow Minister of Economic Development. The claims came from David Burt, the Premier and Minister...

Recruitment policies by employers will be closely monitored as part of a “next wave of changes” to immigration policy. Home affairs minister Walton Brown told the House of Assembly other items on the agenda would be an enhancement of the musician ent...

The cash back for communities programme has been put on hold after its funds were used to cover other government expenses, Parliament heard yesterday. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, told The Royal Gazette that several community grou...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, declared himself “astounded” at the state of the Bermuda Land Development Company that he discovered upon taking office. Colonel Burch told the House of Assembly that the BLDC’s finances f...

Bermudians left waiting on “crumbs” from the island’s economic recovery will have “a seat at the table to share the full meal”, the Progressive Labour Party vowed as legislators returned to Parliament. Pledging to “face the issues of division in our ...

Veteran MP Dennis Lister Jr, the Progressive Labour Party’s choice for Speaker of the House when Parliament resumes tomorrow, has pledged to forge “togetherness” in the session ahead. “I will allow a free flow of debate and provide the Members respec...

Dennis Lister Jr, the longest-serving Progressive Labour Party MP, has been chosen as the new Speaker of the House after a meeting last week of the PLP caucus. The PLP Parliamentary Group also endorsed the second longest-serving PLP Member of Parliam...

The Progressive Labour Party is to host an election victory party, free for the community, from 5pm this Friday at the Devonshire Recreation Club. The festivities, marking the PLP’s sweeping success in the July 16 General Election, is open to “reside...

Legislators return to Parliament next month with a new Cabinet position under Lovitta Foggo designed to steer Government reforms. The ministry, Ms Foggo’s first portfolio after ten years as an MP, will involve fresh scrutiny of good governance measur...