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More than $6 million was paid in consultancy fees to four professional services firms over 19 months, MPs were told yesterday. But Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said more than 60 per cent of the cash went to EY under an order from the court...

A total of 56 recommendations were made under six headings in a report by the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses. The panel, headed by retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller, examined alleged land losses said to have happened “through th...

A new fleet of electric buses will cost less than half the price of older diesel vehicles, the transport minister told the House of Assembly yesterday morning. Lawrence Scott said 30 buses, built by the Golden Dragon Bus Company in China at a cost of...

The House of Assembly was updated yesterday morning on key meetings to keep the island off the European Union’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, briefed MPs on meetings held in London and Brussels. Mr...

A Bill designed to strengthen Bermuda’s human rights laws and promote equality was yesterday tabled in the House of Assembly by the One Bermuda Alliance. The proposed legislation would create an Equality Council at the Human Rights Commission which ...

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 ...