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Members of Parliament are to debate their salaries for the coming year on Monday. Legislators are likely to be closely watched during the talks, held on the last day of the exhaustive post-Budget committee of supply meetings. The earnings of Cabinet ...

Taking pictures within the walls of Parliament is against the law, Speaker of the House Randy Horton said yesterday, after telling legislators he had spotted a photo online that had been taken from the gallery. Mr Horton was referring to a shot circu...

Bermuda’s failure to meet its own goals for spending cuts is “unfortunate” and “will not play out well with rating agencies and our creditors”, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development. Under the middle-term expenditure frame...

The Opposition’s record in government was assailed in Parliament by Premier Michael Dunkley after the One Bermuda Alliance was condemned as lacking in transparency and accountability. “Nonsense — arrant nonsense,” Mr Dunkley said in an exchange durin...

Government overspent by almost $23 million across seven ministries in the 2014-15 fiscal year, according to supplemental estimates tabled this morning in the House of Assembly. The top “offender” was financial assistance, at $5.6 million, under the M...

Opposition Leader Marc Bean has decried the One Bermuda Alliance’s record of transparency, calling it “elusive, more so than any other time in the history of modern government in Bermuda”. The broadside came at the close of Premier Michael Dunkley’s ...

One Bermuda Alliance backbencher Mark Pettingill likened the Opposition’s Reply to the Budget to a children’s television show, while the Opposition deemed Government’s policy uncaring and overly reliant on taxation. “Our philosophies are clearly diff...

America’s Cup legislation has been passed with the full support of the Senate, although the Opposition queried how much of the community will share in the wealth. Junior National Security Minister Jeff Baron said entrepreneurs were already approachin...

The Senate has approved further alterations to municipalities legislation, over strong Opposition misgivings over possibilities for abuse. The effects of the Municipalities Amendment Act will be felt soon, in the upcoming May 2015 elections for Hamil...

If the Budget were Christmas, “expect Scrooge instead of Santa Claus”, says Charles Jeffers, the deputy chairman of Age Concern. Seniors advocates would like to see an increase in monthly pensions, but Mr Jeffers has conceded that it would take “a mi...