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The One Bermuda Alliance pledged this afternoon it would take politics out of education if elected with the creation of an independent education authority. Cole Simons, the Shadow Minister of Education, said the initiative was one of several that the...

The final line-up for the upcoming General Election will be shown today with numerous candidates yet to be announced. A One Bermuda Alliance spokesman declined to confirm yesterday whether the party would field a full slate of 36 candidates, only sta...

Senators have approved moves to modernise jury selection and allow some cannabis convictions to be wiped clean. The Criminal Code Amendment No 2 Act 2020 and the Expungement of Convictions Act 2020 won support in the Upper House. Kathy Lynn Simmons,...

Legal changes to level the playing field in jury selection have won unanimous backing in the House of Assembly. The Criminal Code Amendment No 2 Act 2020 removed the right for prosecutors to “standby” an unlimited number of potential jurors without r...

Legislation to allow cannabis convictions to be removed from the record was approved in the House of Assembly on Friday. But Ministers warned that the amendments would probably not remove Bermudians from the United States “stop list”, which makes it ...

MPs have approved legislation to offer tax and duty breaks to several hotel redevelopment projects. Rosewood Bermuda, which recently underwent major renovations, and the St George’s Club, which is expected to get a revamp soon, will both get breaks. ...

The builders of an illegal dock in St George’s that was demolished this week showed “blatant disregard for the law”, the public works minister said last week. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told the House of Assembly his ministry wanted to work with ...

A study has found a drop in drug use among the island’s schoolchildren, the Attorney-General has revealed. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate on Wednesday that a survey of public, private and home-schooled pupils conducted by the Department of Nation...

A law to protect the young from grooming for sex by people in positions of power was backed yesterday by the Senate. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said the Criminal Code Amendment Act would create a new crimi...

Measures to allow the Minister of Finance to defer taxes and compliance requirement in situations such as a pandemic have been approved by legislators. Amendments to both the Companies Act and the Public Treasury Act were given the green light by bot...