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from the legal list of holidays. The move came after the Senate sent a bill aiming to mark the freeing of slaves in Bermuda by renaming one of the annual Cup Match holidays Emancipation Day. With Somers Day -- commemorating the 1609 claiming of Bermu...

A cut-off date for the last hand for hi-tech video gambling is on the cards, Premier Jennifer Smith said yesterday. And -- for the first time -- she confirmed further legislation would be introduced following the passage of a law in the House of Asse...

A war of words over questions to Ministers in the House of Assembly went into overtime yesterday. Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon accused Finance Minister Eugene Cox of misleading the public in a row over unanswered questions on Government spending. ...

of the House of Assembly. And the Opposition United Bermuda Party is gearing up for a major attack on the ruling Progressive Labour Party's record of controlling the public purse. The clash is brewing over the near $5 million third supplementary esti...

the freeing of slaves in Bermuda. Senate approved an amendment to the original wording of the Public Holidays Amendment Act 1999, putting Cup Match back on a legal footing -- a turnaround on a decision by the House of Assembly. Government Senate Lead...

equipment, more responsibilities and full-time opportunities for young Bermudians. And a major review by British Army Brigadier Simon Young of the Bermuda Regiment -- due to be carried out next month -- is almost certain to recommend a bigger sea-goi...

Health and Social Services Minister Kim Young said yesterday. And she slammed the Bermuda Industrial Union for failing to take action to curb drug dealing and use in its parking lot off Hamilton's Court Street. Ms Young said: "The BIU leader Derrick ...

Bermuda's political parties will this week decide whether a vote on the abolition of hanging and flogging will be a vote of conscience or the if the Whip will be imposed. Development and Opportunity Minister Terry Lister -- who tabled the bill in the...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued proof of his personal commitment to the battle to clean up the former US Baselands in Bermuda. In a personal letter to Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson, Mr. Blair wrote: "Like you, we believe that the US adm...

was revealed yesterday. Further legal action to overturn a law banning fast food franchises by would-be McDonald's burger barons Grape Bay Ltd. has not been ruled out. Mark Diel, of law firm Diel & Myers who represented Grape Bay in a losing case bef...