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Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch insisted in the House of Assembly last Friday that the demolition of the historic house Wantley will go ahead despite objections from community organisations. The Minister of Public Works defended the decision in a sta...

Spare a little sympathy — just a little — for Clarien Bank. When it announced that it was giving $100,000 to assist Black and members of other underrepresented groups to pay their school fees at private schools, its executives presumably expected to...

It would be an indictment on Bermuda if it failed to use up the stock of Covid-19 vaccines that has been generously provided by the British Government and, more recently, the Covax organisation. There are countries of millions of people, often poore...

On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic. Last night, 69 new cases were announced after 108 new cas...

Passing the Budget is the single most important act carried out by Bermuda’s Parliament in any given year. Pedants will point out that the Budget itself does not get passed and has no legal standing. There is a speech called a Budget Statement, which...

Last Friday night, with little debate, the most ambitious changes to Bermuda’s education system in decades sailed through the House of Assembly. Perhaps that is the price when the governing party has a massive majority. It may also have something to ...

Today, The Royal Gazette embarks on a series examining some of the most far-reaching set of education changes in half a century. Overall, the reforms envisioned by the Ministry of Education propose to revamp the system for every child from the age of...

In the Westminster system, Budgets have traditionally been shrouded in mystery. There’s good reason for this: leaks of tax increases or policy changes would lead to hoarding, profiteering or abuse. In the 1930s, a British Cabinet minister was forced ...

On Friday, the House of Assembly passed the most far-reaching drug-liberalisation laws Bermuda has seen in decades. The Cannabis Licensing Act was passed without a vote, meaning constituents have no idea whether their Member of Parliament was for or...

The year 2020 is one that we would love to forget. But we can’t. It and its after-effects will linger well into this new year and beyond for all the pain and suffering it has caused — and will continue to cause. However, out of some of the gloomiest ...