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Amendments to three Acts aimed at ensuring Bermuda’s financial industry frameworks are up to international standards have been passed in the Senate. The Bermuda Monetary Authority (Determination of Appeals) Act, the Money Service Business Act and the...

The referendum on same-sex relationships will go ahead, Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled yesterday. However, the advanced polling station has been switched to Bermuda College from the Seventh-day Adventist Church Hall on King Street. In a short hearin...

Rolfe Commissiong has suggested that the Employment Act needs to be amended so that employers are obliged to pay overtime rates to employees working in excess of 40 hours a week. During the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, he sai...

Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has defended his position in face of accusations that he did not adhere to financial instructions over the release of key information about the Bermuda Government’s airport plans. Shadow minister and chairman o...

David Burt, the acting Leader of the Opposition, said he was “shocked” by an editorial he read in The Royal Gazette about a perceived lack of public protest over gun crime, and called on the editor to make a retraction. Mr Burt described the editoria...

Independent senator James Jardine drew attention to the lack of financial information on quangos and other government operations during yesterday’s Senate sitting. He spoke as the financial statements of the Consolidated Fund of the Government of Ber...

Jeff Baron made his first speech in the Senate since becoming Minister of National Security, focusing on the weekend’s tragic events. He emphasised to colleagues the “harsh reality” of two families suffering the loss of their sons — 17-year-old Juda...

Three police officers were present at the front gate of L.F. Wade International Airport yesterday in response to reports of a planned protest. The Royal Gazette was in place at the airport for an hour and in that time no protesters were present. An e...

Bermuda Government whip Cole Simons and Junior Minister for Home Affairs Sylvan Richards have been touted as possible newcomers to the Cabinet. A source close to the One Bermuda Alliance told this newspaper that Mr Simons could take on immigration, ...

Former tourism minister Shawn Crockwell has hit back at reports that he intends to join the Progressive Labour Party, telling The Royal Gazette: “There is absolutely no intention for me to cross the floor.” Mr Crockwell, who resigned from Cabinet in ...