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MPs will today discuss controversial plans to rename the annual Cup Match holiday to recognise the end of slavery in Bermuda. Acting Premier Eugene Cox will introduce the bill in the House of Assembly, which aims to dub the summer break Emancipation ...

A row over a hi-tech hospital incinerator heated up with an Opposition MP claiming Health Minister Nelson Bascome had been "misinformed'' over the cost of the new machine. Shadow Health Minister Kim Young said: "Somebody is giving the Minister inaccu...

MPs yesterday. MPs approved the bill to remove some kinds of alterations from the remit of the Development Application Board. Acting Environment Minister Nelson Bascome said: "The Government is moving to make the process of applications by individual...

Premier Jennifer Smith also tabled a new law which prohibits the importation of hi-tech gaming machines, parts and accessories and of lottery tickets. The bill said: "The machines to which this bill applies are machines that are constructed or adapte...

Ministers and civil servants have run up nearly $143,000 in credit card charges this year alone, it was revealed on Friday. And Government admitted that policy had changed and now all Ministers -- not just the Premier and Minister of Finance as under...

A bid to cut costs and travel with video court appearances live from Westgate Correctional Facility will not work, an Opposition spokesman claimed. And Shadow Legislative Affairs spokesman John Barritt said a voluntary approach to the use of a $144,0...

questions in the House of Assembly over current staffing levels. And Shadow Labour and Home Affairs Minister Michael Dunkley later blasted Labour, Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Paula Cox's answers to a series of questions on the strength of...

An amnesty for illegal immigrants is on the cards, Labour and Home Affairs Minister Paula Cox has promised. Ms Cox said yesterday she had been asked by lawyer Delroy Duncan -- acting for the Jamaican and West Indian Associations -- to allow a list of...

Bermuda's Cabinet system could be in for a massive shake-up after a far-reaching review of the Civil Service, it was revealed yesterday. Tourism Minister David Allen told a meeting of the Bermuda Society in London that the review, carried out by UK e...

Top English lawyer John Roberts will arrive in Bermuda next week to chair an independent probe into controversy over the handling of a court case against developer Rodney Smith. Government House yesterday revealed that Dr. Roberts QC will arrive on M...