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Climate change, controls on pesticide and a sustainable tourism strategy would be worthwhile elements in the 2016 Throne Speech, according to the environment group BEST. While the Bermuda Government has thus far kept the contents of Monday’s Throne S...

Plans for a redeveloped L.F. Wade International Airport have garnered provisional approval from the Development Applications Board. The plans for the controversial project were submitted to the Department of Planning earlier this year, proposing a ne...

[Vic Ball challenges suggestion of refurbishing existing airport

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has called on the public to give their thoughts on the concept of immigration and adoption. Any person who is adopted by a Bermudian is deemed to be Bermudian until their 22nd birthday. To achieve Ber...

Amendments aimed at prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of mental illness were roundly supported in the House of Assembly on Friday. Sylvan Richards, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, explained that the primary purpose of the Human ...

The House of Assembly is set to return today, discussing an expansion of human rights legislation to further block discrimination. It is understood that during today’s session, the House of Assembly will debate the Human Rights Amendment (No 2) Act 2...

A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee has been set back so members can attend the funeral of Clarence James. Dr James, a celebrated surgeon and former Deputy Premier, died last weekend. The meeting had been scheduled to take place this afternoon...

A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday was called off after all four One Bermuda Alliance members failed to attend, leaving the committee without a quorum. Financial secretary Anthony Manders, who had been summoned to attend the m...

Bob Richards said a summons issued by Public Accounts Committee chairman David Burt to bring the financial secretary before the committee was not legally valid. Mr Burt, however, insisted that the summons was valid and Mr Richard’s claim was “idiotic...

Public meetings about the St George’s hotel project will be held this year, according to the Bermuda Government. Responding to questions by Progressive Labour Party backbencher Zane DeSilva, Grant Gibbons, the Acting Minister of Tourism, told the Hou...