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Senate could today upset Government plans to abolish hanging and flogging by blocking the bill aimed at ending capital and corporal punishment. The three Opposition United Bermuda Party Senators are set to follow their party line and vote against the...

debate on the abolition of the death penalty in Bermuda. A spokeswoman for the US State Department said: "People make all kinds of comments about the US all the time, around the globe. "We usually don't respond to comments of this kind.'' The US rea...

Plans to more than double the income from tourism at the old Royal Naval Dockyard are in the works. But the West End Development Corporation's annual report warned that to maximise the area's potential outside development cash is needed -- as well as...

An apology to the US should be made after Government Minister Terry Lister claimed America's use of the death penalty was racist during the debate on killing off hanging in Bermuda, Shadow Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister insisted yesterday. M...

flop, Shadow Tourism Minister David Dodwell claimed yesterday. And he accused Tourism Minister David Allen of using the rules of the House of Assembly to dodge questions on the cost of a multi-nation series of tourism promotions earlier this year. Th...

A gambler is set to take court action after operators of a hi-tech gambling machine refused to pay out a whopping jackpot. It is believed that the case will be the first time a dispute over a payout from gambling machines has gone to legal action. An...

to set up a new body to ease the housing crisis for low-income families. Charles Jeffers -- chairman of the National Liberal Party -- in making the official announcement yesterday, said he would now be trying to drum up support for his new project wi...

regulation in Bermuda and the other UK overseas territories, it was revealed yesterday. And the examination of the Island's financial health is expected to be completed by summer next year. Foreign Office junior Minister Baroness Scotland said: "The ...

The soldier at the centre of controversy over Bermuda Regiment promotions is to quit the Island's part-time army, The Royal Gazette can reveal. But, according to Regiment insiders, Maj. Nick Moore is to resign his commission to take up a high-flying ...

to erupt in the Senate today. The Upper House is likely to go to war over the new law, which sets up a framework for consumers to complain about sub-standard goods and service. MPs clashed over the new Act two weeks ago, which, for the first time, gi...