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A proposal to boost insurance payouts for road accidents have been put before Parliament. The legislation, an update to a law passed in the 1940s, seeks to increase insurer liability for anyone travelling in a car or “a public carriage”. The insurer ...

One of Bermuda’s Olympians and a veteran broadcaster has died, it was announced yesterday. Mike Sharpe, who was 65, competed in the 100 metres at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, also excelled in the triple jump, ran in relay races and p...

The championing of a single company to bring tidal power energy to Bermuda has been questioned by the Opposition. Scott Pearman, the shadow home affairs minister, said he would raise the One Bermuda Alliance’s concerns about the Government’s deal wit...

Young people enrolled on a graduate trainee scheme are the “future leaders of Bermuda”, the labour minister has said. Mr Hayward told those involved: "The Ministry of Labour launched the first graduate trainee pilot programme in February 2021, with 1...

A report into alleged historic land grabs and a revised Budget statement will dominate the House of Assembly’s final session of the year today. It is understood that the Commission of Inquiry, which held its last hearings in May, completed the report...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly has signalled to MPs that any one of them could ask for an inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Dennis Lister insisted he had to stay neutral, but that a member from either side of the House could pu...

An organisational revamp of the Bermuda National Trust was yesterday backed by the Senate. The legislation, which increased the number of people to be elected to the trust’s council to 13 and ended appointment to the council by entitlement, was passe...

The Mayor of Hamilton, Charles Gosling, said yesterday that he will not run for re-election. The announcement comes as the corporation is locked in a legal battle with the Government for its survival. Mr Gosling, 68, told The Royal Gazette: “Sometime...

Any top level parliamentary inquiry into how Bermuda has coped with the Covid-19 crisis must be non-party political, the Opposition has insisted. The comments come in the wake of David Burt, the Premier, saying a committee of lawmakers would be best ...

A bust-up over the state of the Tynes Bay incinerator heated up yesterday as the Government was accused of failure to act on promises of investment in the plant that dated back decades. A major announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the publ...