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Parliamentarians who sit on a committee investigating how protesters came to be pepper sprayed by police in December 2016 have failed to explain why they have held all of their meetings in secret. The Joint Select Committee has held 40 meetings, none...

A New York investment firm that is in the process of buying Bermuda Commercial Bank has “no plans with regard to gaming”, one of its principals insisted yesterday. Lewis Katz, managing partner of Permanent Capital, was asked by The Royal Gazette to c...

The acting executive director of the island’s gambling watchdog has left her post, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Deborah Blakeney, general counsel at the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission, had headed up the public authority after the resignation of Ri...

Patients whose health records were seized in police raids on Ewart Brown’s medical clinics do not want their files to be examined by detectives, their lawyer insisted yesterday. Jerome Lynch QC told the Supreme Court that the 150 or so people he repr...

The island’s gambling watchdog has been rapped on the knuckles for the second time this month for a failure to comply with public access to information rules. Cheryl-Ann Mapp, chairwoman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission, did not provide The Ro...

Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingly clean” gambling jurisdiction if the industry regulator is not upfront about its own finances, overseas experts have warned. Gene Johnson, a gaming consultant, told The Royal Gazette that a...

The island’s gambling regulator splashed out almost $600,000 on legal services over the past two years, it was revealed yesterday. The figure was reported as the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission published details in the Official Gazette of all the co...

The chief executive of the Bermuda Hospitals Board has taken a three-month break on medical grounds. Venetta Symonds has been off work since December 15 and is expected to return on March 18. Michael Richmond, the board’s chief of staff, is acting CE...

Every death at the island’s general and psychiatric hospitals is to be scrutinised to check if it was avoidable or unexpected. The new rules at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute were introduced in an attemp...

Children’s rights campaigners urged the Government yesterday not to push on with a proposed legal change that they claimed would erode the right of vulnerable youngsters to independent legal representation in court. Katie Richards, a family law exper...