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David Burt, the Shadow Minister of Finance, has admitted he knew in advance that Government members of the Public Accounts Committee could not attend its last meeting, as all had sent their apologies to him beforehand. Committee chairman Mr Burt told...

Falling house prices in Bermuda mean the threshold for properties which come under rent control is to be reduced. Homes with an annual rental value of $27,000 or less are regulated by the Rent Commission to give tenants in lower-value properties secu...

Members of the Public Accounts Committee are at loggerheads over whether chairman David Burt should have ordered a senior civil servant to provide them with the full agreement on the new airport. Correspondence obtained by The Royal Gazette reveals t...

The Bermuda Government has rejected a freedom of information request for a raft of documents detailing how the new multimillion-dollar airport deal will work. And it has also refused to release a legal opinion on whether Bermuda needs the approval of...

The referendum on marriage equality could take place in less than ten weeks but all is so far quiet on the campaign front. The two-question ballot — which will ask whether voters are in favour of same-sex marriage and whether they are in favour of sa...

The founder of a struggling charity which focuses on developing children’s brains is appealing to corporate Bermuda to look beyond the well-connected, “big names” in the third sector and consider sponsoring a smaller operation. Former public schoolte...

Opposition politician Wayne Furbert helped to set up a company in Bermuda with the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak while he was in Cabinet. Mr Furbert was financial controller and a director of Mossfon Corporate Services (Bermuda) Li...

Cash-strapped citizens have withdrawn more than $17 million from their workplace pensions since the rules on accessing retirement savings were relaxed. Hundreds of people have tapped into their pension pots to pay for rent, school fees, mortgages and...

A hairdresser from Bermuda competing in a United States television show says it has been the “best experience in my life, working with the most creative people in the world”. Tanju Kurt, owner of TK Hair Group, put together the team taking part in ...

Objections have been made about Preserve Marriage’s application to become a charity — though the Bermuda Government will not say how many. The pressure group, which is opposed to same-sex couples being allowed to wed in Bermuda, is still waiting to h...