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David Burt retains finance as he brings a former minister back and hands tourism to freshman MP

OBA: A Cabinet shake-up expected today will still leave the government in turmoil after two high-profile ministerial exits

Britons who have lived abroad for more than 15 years will get the right to vote in British general elections after a legal change was passed in the House of Lords. British citizens at present lose the right to vote if they have been abroad for more t...

Concern was growing in the Progressive Labour Party last night over the Premier’s leadership after the Government was plunged into fresh controversy after the national security minister’s surprise departure from the Cabinet. The unrest came as David ...

Praised for his handling of the initial stage of the Covid-19 crisis, the Premier seemed almost unassailable when he led the Progressive Labour Party to a landslide victory at the last election — but has Mr Slick now become Mr Lost the Grip? With the...

The Premier was last night engulfed in a fresh crisis after a minister he claimed he fired insisted that she had quit over a series of problems. Renée Ming, who was the national security minister, said: “I resigned from the Premier’s Cabinet.” But sh...

The Senate heard that “smoking weed” should not be seen as normal as the Upper House split down the middle on a vote yesterday on whether to legalise cannabis. The vote on the second reading of the Cannabis Licensing Act 2022 was tied — but under pa...

Will Renée Ming’s abrupt departure from Cabinet be the latest, lasting sting to David Burt’s premiership? Mr Burt said he fired the former national security minister – Ms Ming insisted she walked because of multiple disagreements with the head of gov...

The Governor will not automatically sign into law legislation to allow the legal growth and sale cannabis if it is ruled to be not in line with United Nations drugs conventions. Rena Lalgie is expected to be asked to approve the Cannabis Licensing Ac...

Cannabis legalisation could spark controversy in the Senate today – even though the Upper House no longer has the power to block the legal change. The legislation is on the order paper for the Senate after the House of Assembly backed the Cannabis Li...