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An office set up four years ago to strengthen financial accountability in government has only half the staff it needs, it has been revealed. And a suitable candidate to lead the Office of Project Management and Procurement (OPMP) has yet to be found,...

Public authorities will be encouraged to take a very “user-friendly” approach when it comes to public access to information (Pati) requests, a meeting heard last night. Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez said some authorities were insisting...

Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner. Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Island’s Westminster system was traditionally...

Highly paid consultants working for the Bermuda Government and other public authorities will have details of their salaries routinely revealed under the Public Access to Information (Pati) Act. Taxpayers will be told on a regular basis about every co...

Journalists have been making good use of the Public Access to Information (Pati) Act since it became law on April 1 — but not every request for disclosure has been successful. Here, we detail several failed bids to find out more. • Residents at Summ...

A physician is to launch what he believes is the first medical school scholarship in Bermuda. JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, told The Royal Gazette his own humble background inspired him to set up the $10,000-a-year fund. “I didn’t come...

A physician is to launch a medical school scholarship for Bermudian students. JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, told The Royal Gazette his own humble background inspired him to set up the $10,000-a-year fund. “I didn’t come from a rich fam...

Financial abuse of seniors is widespread in Bermuda but everyone can take steps to help prevent it happening to them, according to the founder of a dementia charity. Liz Stewart, of Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia, is urging old and young to atten...

A three-week-old baby found unconscious at a property in St David’s in the early hours of yesterday has died. Bermuda Police Service said emergency services attended a report of an incident on Tommy Fox Road at about 3.45am. “Upon police arrival, it ...

The One Bermuda Alliance would win a snap general election but only just, according to the results of a new survey commissioned by The Royal Gazette. Forty per cent of people polled by Global Research last month said they would vote for the ruling pa...