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Same-sex marriages that took place before the practice was outlawed are still valid under a Bill passed in the Senate yesterday. The Domestic Partnership Amendment Act extends the transitional period during which same-sex marriages could be carried o...

Emergency laws designed to crack down rapidly on crime will be made permanent after legislation was passed by senators yesterday. In reading the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2022, Ernest Peets, the Government Senate Leader and spokesman for the Minis...

People will get to hear from one of the leading ecologists in the Caribbean, Lanya Fanovitch, at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. Ms Fanovitch is the senior ecologist of the Environmental Research Institute of Charlotteville, based in To...

Numerous senators weighed in on the debate about the Government’s proposal to extend Covid-19 public heath emergency measures. The regulations, which make the wearing of masks mandatory in certain places such as health facilities and on public transp...

Senators have approved legislation that will see quarantine exemptions for members of certain armed forces removed. The Quarantine Amendment Bill 2022 seeks to amend the Quarantine Act 2017 to make provisions for the Quarantine Authority to make eme...

A commission into land grabs appointed by the Premier “acted unfairly and unlawfully on a number of fronts” and its findings should be overturned, a court heard. LeYoni Junos told the Supreme Court that she was challenging the report of the Commissio...

The chairman of Bermuda’s leading cancer care charity is stepping down after more than 21 years in the post. Gavin Arton has been succeeded by Bill Wharton, the head of Argo Insurance, who formally stepped into the role this month. Mr Arton said: “PA...

An order granting a resort tax breaks for redevelopment over the next ten years was rubber-stamped in the Senate yesterday. Under the Tourism Investment Cambridge Beaches Resort and Spa Order, the new owners of the historic west end facility will not...

A charity has teamed up with the police and an addiction treatment organisation to hold an event to discuss issues including drugs and grooming methods used by gangs. Raleigh Bermuda is hosting the event in partnership with the Bermuda Police Service...

Residents are being urged to turn in friends and relatives who have committed crimes in an effort to stop an escalating “crisis” in violent crime on the island. Michael Weeks, the Minister for National Security, made the call at a public meeting on ...