Log In

David Burt has defended the pace of constitutional reform after the same promises on changes in the relationship with the UK were made in two successive Throne Speeches. The Premier insisted that it was wrong to say very little had been done on the ...

The owners of the Fairmont Southampton will not have the redevelopment of the resort underwritten by the Government, the finance minister has said. Curtis Dickinson emphasised that no government could be expected to take on the risks of private devel...

A crackdown on gang violence is needed to shake Bermuda out of its acceptance of gun crime, the Leader of the Opposition said yesterday. Cole Simons demanded a tougher response from David Burt, the Premier, in the aftermath of a string of shootings t...

The Premier said yesterday that the public would be informed if there was an update on a Cabinet minister who has been absent from his post for weeks. David Burt said the responsibilities of Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, ...

The Premier today denied claims that a lack of major new programmes in the Throne Speech meant the Government was running out of imagination and energy. David Burt was speaking after the One Bermuda Alliance attacked the legislative programme as bein...

Plans aimed at powering Bermuda out of the economic slump triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic were unveiled by the Government yesterday. The Throne Speech delivered by Governor Rena Lalgie on behalf of the ruling PLP administration focused on building...

Here are five things we learnt from today’s Throne Speech: 1) A day of firsts: Rena Lalgie, the Governor, made history as the first woman, and the first Black person, to deliver the Speech from the Throne. She used the occasion to subtly, but fi...

The Throne Speech was as heavy on the rhetoric of solidarity as it was light on the details of recovery. It took Rena Lalgie, the Governor, 8,241 words to say not very much at all. Not her fault as, apart from a few thoughts of her own tacked on at t...

Mass demonstrations at the climate crisis summit in Scotland were yesterday defended by the home affairs minister. Walter Roban, a delegate at the event in Glasgow, said he sympathised with activists such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environm...