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Better communication among government departments, police and other agencies could help to prevent vulnerable children from “falling through the cracks”, a child protection group said yesterday. The Coalition for the Protection of Children added that...

The Riddell’s Bay Members Committee would like to respond to some of the comments in the press. We believe that it is important to present the public with feedback and a balanced perspective of opinions when it comes to making important zoning decisi...

A former public works minister said yesterday that it was he who commissioned the report into the finances of a struggling sports centre — not the trustees who ran it. Trevor Moniz, now a One Bermuda Alliance backbencher, explained that he asked for ...

An Opposition MP has questioned why audit experts were ordered to carry out an investigation into the Department of Child and Family Services. Scott Pearman, the Shadow Attorney-General, claimed it made “no sense” to have the Department of Internal A...

A refusal by the Government to release information about the cost of its legal fight against same-sex marriage will be reviewed by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The news came after The Royal Gazette made a public access to information reque...

The government body set up to compensate victims of crime did not consider a single application on the only occasion it met last year, a leaked e-mail from a board member has revealed. Paul Wilson, a lawyer who now works for the Government and no lon...

City businesses were reminded about how they can play a part to reduce the number of rodents on Hamilton streets. They were asked to keep bin lids closed and to clean bins regularly to prevent an “open invitation” to rats, that appeared to be plaguin...

An investigation into delays in the payment of compensation to victims of crime is at the “fact-finding stage”, it has been revealed. Victoria Pearman, the Ombudsman, said “that the potential harm of maladministration at the Criminal Injuries Compens...

The government body set up to compensate victims of crime has failed to reveal the size of its “serious backlog” of cases under public access to information. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board told the Court of Appeal last November that it had ...

Senior civil servant Major Marc Telemaque asked immigration officials to find a way for Bermuda to issue travel documents to the four refugee Uighurs, but was rebuffed. Major Telemaque sent a “high importance” e-mail in January 2011, the day before h...