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Rolfe Commissiong has suggested that the Employment Act needs to be amended so that employers are obliged to pay overtime rates to employees working in excess of 40 hours a week. During the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, he sai...

Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has defended his position in face of accusations that he did not adhere to financial instructions over the release of key information about the Bermuda Government’s airport plans. Shadow minister and chairman o...

Progressive Labour Party MP Diallo Rabain has accused the Bermuda Government of issuing “essentially illegal” work permits to motor mechanics, landscape gardeners, electricians and welders. Mr Rabain said he was “shocked” to learn from responses to p...

The Bermuda Government is investigating after a Public Works vehicle was photographed with a sticker supporting the Preserve Marriage campaign. The bumper sticker on one of the Government’s Toyota vehicles, urged people to “vote no twice” in oppositi...

David Burt, the acting Leader of the Opposition, said he was “shocked” by an editorial he read in The Royal Gazette about a perceived lack of public protest over gun crime, and called on the editor to make a retraction. Mr Burt described the editoria...

Ramadan in Bermuda will begin tonight at sundown, as the Islamic world prepares to mark its holy month. During this time each year, Muslims refrain from eating and drinking during sunlight hours in order to refocus their priorities in life. “I see...

An introduction by a mutual friend led to a long friendship between Muhammad Ali and one Bermuda family. Janice Swainson, from Sandys, spoke to The Royal Gazette about the close friendship she enjoyed with the legendary boxer, who died aged 74 on Fri...

It wasn’t quite a baptism of fire but it felt like it; certainly as the evening wore on the temperature soared. Staring at the fastest fists in the world, I could feel beads of sweat running across my forehead. This wasn’t just the suffocating humidi...

A Hamilton Parish man who admitted stealing a bottle of Scotch this morning told the court that he needed help. Jamaka Gibbons, 39, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a $68.10 bottle of Dewar’s White Label scotch from Lindo’s in Devonshire. The c...

An error in Belco’s billing system has resulted in incorrect bills sent out by the utility company from June 1 through June 3. Customers were advised to disregard the bills, which are being corrected “as a matter of urgency”, a spokeswoman for Ascend...