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low at the start of the new session, according to a secret College report. And only one student has signed up for the Best Steps programme, designed to improve basic skills so students can continue into higher education -- compared to 40 last year. T...

New legal teeth to bite into the menace of killer dogs is on the cards. The news came after a report from animal watchdogs warned there was evidence dogs were being trained to attack people. An Agriculture and Fisheries report said: "It has been stat...

Bureaucrats accused of bungling over Government debts bit back yesterday. And now the civil service union is to seek top-level meetings to discuss a threat to penalise its members in the pocket if they fail to haul Government's books back into the bl...

The burger battle is set to sizzle on as London's Law Lords yesterday took time to chew over arguments for and against Big Macs in Bermuda. And it could take up to six months before Bermuda's last court of appeal -- the Privy Council -- serves up a f...

Opposition MP warned last night. And UBP Legislative Affairs spokesman John Barritt said: "Our main goal must be to establish what's inside -- until then, we need to reserve judgment.'' Mr. Barritt added that Government's almost total silence on the...

A Government Minister's call for an overseas recruitment policy to reflect the racial mix of Bermuda got a mixed response yesterday. Shadow Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley said Development and Opportunity Minister Terry Lister...

The Island's independent financial watchdog could be muzzled due to a lack of real freedom to carry out its duties, Auditor Larry Dennis warned yesterday. And he called for the Auditor's Office -- which scrutinises public spending -- to be given a UK...

Bungling bureaucrats who do not collect on debt to Government could be hit in their own pockets, The Royal Gazette can reveal. For the Ministry of Finance is to consider surcharging slacker civil servants who fail to fight like tigers on the cash col...

A road show on the UK's rewrite of relations with its colonies is set to roll tonight. And Opposition United Bermuda Party Leader Pamela Gordon said her party had taken a lead on the massive British White Paper because Government had failed to inform...

A multi-million dollar bid to buy Chelston by the Bermuda Government was yesterday slammed as a waste of taxpayers' money. And Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon said claims that using the luxury mansion as an official home for Premiers was likely -- de...