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Ministers are refusing to say if there were any breakthroughs on the stand-off with London over the Government’s flagship cannabis legislation during top level talks with a senior British official. Despite repeated requests for information on the con...

There will be no limits on the height or design of new buildings in North East Hamilton under a plan aimed at transforming the area so that “negative perceptions” of it can be buried, MPs heard yesterday. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, s...

Concerns a reform of Bermuda’s energy development structures could “open the floodgates” for outside companies have been played down by the Government. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs and Deputy Premier, told MPs yesterday that new measure...

Lavish praise has been heaped on the Queen for her platinum jubilee by David Burt, the Premier – despite the Government drawing criticism for not marking the occasion with a public holiday. Mr Burt said the Queen displayed calm and dignity in a world...

Almost one in three young Bermudian adults are unemployed, the Government admitted yesterday. However, launching the National Youth Employment Strategy, which is aimed at dealing with the issue, Jason Hayward, the Minister of Economy and Labour, reje...

Businesses have branded the highly controversial Travel Authorisation Form “frustrating” amid calls for the charge to be scrapped. The comments by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce come after the Government admitted that the $40 fee to enter the countr...

The system used to gauge inflation will be updated next year as part of a ten-year cycle, the Labour and Economy Minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward also rejected suggestions that the basket of goods used to weigh price increases had not been chan...

Failure by the Government to follow other Overseas Territories and declare a two-day public holiday to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee represents a missed opportunity to give workers a break, a leading union chief has said. Chris Furbert, head of t...

Former premier Sir John Swan has spoken warmly about his meetings with the Queen as a huge banner to mark the monarch’s platinum jubilee was unveiled in Hamilton. Sir John, who resigned as head of government after voters rejected his push for indepen...

Revelations that the Government’s much criticised Travel Authorisation form is now a money-raising mechanism rather than an anti-Covid agent has intensified opposition demands for it to be scrapped. The One Bermuda Alliance has insisted the $40 char...