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Leglslation designed to streamline the process for complaints against doctors was passed in the House of Assembly. The Medical Practitioners Amendment Act will increase the size of the committee responsible for dealing with complaints and allow for a...

A programme to help families get on the property ladder is tackling Bermuda’s “housing crisis”, a minister told MPs. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, updated the House on the Bermuda Housing Corporation’s HomeStart progra...

Paid maternity leave could be extended by five weeks before the end of the year, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Lovitta Foggo, the labour, community affairs and sports minister, told MPs that maternity leave would be increased from eight week...

Bermuda’s bipartisan immigration reform plan is to be tabled in the House of Assembly next week, the Minister of National Security said yesterday. Wayne Caines said that the plan would take into consideration the needs of business and of Bermuda as a...

The Minister of National Security defended the work he is doing for the Department of Corrections in the House of Assembly on the same day that prison officers marched in protest of pay and working conditions. Wayne Caines spoke during the Motion to...

Prison officers picketed the House of Assembly yesterday as part of an industrial dispute over pay and conditions. Timothy Seon, the president of the Prison Officers Association, said in a Bermuda Broadcasting Company interview that no formal pay off...

George Dowling III has been elected Mayor of St George beating Kenneth Bascome by 234 votes last night. The announcement was welcomed with loud applause, as the 41-year-old former town councillor earned 363 votes to the veteran politician’s 129 votes...

The Mayor of Hamilton offered a compromise power-sharing deal to the Government yesterday to try to halt a move to abolish the two local authorities. Charles Gosling suggested a joint committee to decide the future governance of the areas in the wake...

The Land Tax Amendment Act was passed in the Senate on Friday. The legislation will come into effect on July 1, 2019, and will see properties charged taxes based on the annual rental value. All properties will be charged a base rate of $300 under th...

The next Director of Public Prosecutions should be a black “born Bermudian” the Deputy Speaker of the House has said. Derrick Burgess, of the Progressive Labour Party, said “perpetual racism” had kept white people at the top in Bermuda during the mot...