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A government department dedicated to ensuring the island’s sustainability has been dismantled, leading green campaigners to fear that environmental issues are not a priority. The Sustainable Development Department was formed to put into action the Su...

“Critical” guidelines to ensure civil servants deal properly with public access to information requests have yet to be released, more than two years after the law came into effect. The absence of the “practice codes” was flagged up by information com...

A charity born almost a century ago to help “needy little ones” announced yesterday that it would close and, in doing so, would give its headquarters to another organisation which works to strengthen Bermuda’s families. The Sunshine League said it wa...

Direct threats were made to officers involved in policing the December 2 protest outside Parliament and so their identities must be kept secret, according to Michael DeSilva. The Commissioner of Police said that was one reason an operational order fo...

Charity commissioners are still deciding whether to recommend the renewal of Preserve Marriage’s charitable status, which ran out on April 5. The Royal Gazette understands that the committee failed to reach a decision at its last meeting and will loo...

Members of a small Muslim movement in Bermuda have launched a campaign to raise awareness about the real meaning of Islam after terror attacks around the world. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community says the aim of its True Islam campaign is to clarify misc...

Michael Dunkley refused to say yesterday whether the $1 million Commission of Inquiry report he ordered would be tabled in Parliament for MPs to debate. The Premier’s spokeswoman sidestepped a question on the issue, telling The Royal Gazette: “The re...

Bermuda’s citizens are being urged by Greenrock to turn the lights out this Saturday and head to Hamilton to celebrate Earth Hour. Organisers held a press conference yesterday to detail all the activities taking place at City Hall to mark the annual ...

The charitable status of a group campaigning to stop same-sex marriage and civil partnerships in Bermuda will be up for review in two weeks. Preserve Marriage has applied to renew the probationary status it was granted a year ago by the Charity Commi...

One Bermuda Alliance MP Mark Pettingill resigned from the governing party yesterday and said he would probably retire from politics at the next General Election. Mr Pettingill, the member for Warwick North East, told reporters he had a long meeting w...