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Public officials violated the rules on the spending of taxpayers’ money so often that it became the “norm for which there are no consequences”, according to the latest report from Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews. The Island’s independent fisc...

The Auditor-General’s investigation into the finances of the Bermuda Hospitals Board was triggered by a “hidden” $4 million it set aside to pay a patient who was paralysed while in its care. The board believed a liability existed in the case of forme...

A friend and former colleague of Thomas Hofer spoke yesterday of how saddened he was that the quadriplegic’s lawsuit against the hospital where he was paralysed had collapsed. Gerhard Lipp, who worked with Mr Hofer at the Once Upon a Table restaurant...

Former health minister Michael Scott has accused hospital authorities of “aggressive” tactics in trying to rid themselves of a lawsuit from a man who was paralysed while in their care. The Opposition politician also claimed the way that the Bermuda H...

Corporate lawyers are to volunteer their time to help local charities. The Centre on Philanthropy, an umbrella organisation for the third sector, is offering a two-hour pro bono corporate legal clinic to its members for the first time to allow non-pr...

Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews has pledged to complete four years’ worth of outstanding annual reports from her office by the time she retires next month. The law requires that the reports are released each year by November 30 or soon after ...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has apologised and paid compensation to a widower whose late wife was given a substance which was the subject of public health warnings and may have contributed to her death. Allan DeSilva has battled BHB for three years to ge...

Citizens were encouraged yesterday to submit freedom of information requests even when they believe the records they request may not be released. Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez, in a live online question-and-answer session with readers ...

Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez will take part in a live online question and answer session with The Royal Gazette this morning and she is urging the public to log on and get involved. Ms Gutierrez proposed the real time discussion to ma...

The Bermuda Government has received 62 public access to information requests and police have received 31 during the first six months of the law coming into force. Michael Dunkley revealed the figure for those entities directly controlled by the Gover...