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Bermuda is to take part in a virtual forum organised to promote good governance and strong oversight of public finances across the Overseas Territories. The event will involve key players from the UK and its Overseas Territories, including politician...

David Burt, the Premier, has paid tribute to a former Prime Minister of St Vincent and The Grenadines who died yesterday. Sir James Mitchell was leader of the nation between 1984 and 2000. Mr Burt, described Sir James as “a giant of the Caribbean re...

The Premier has been accused of using the Government’s cannabis policy to divert voters away from the island’s problems. Cole Simons, the One Bermuda Alliance leader, said David Burt and his Progressive Labour Party administration should concentrate...

Bermuda will lose an ally at the heart of the US establishment after a veteran congressman with Bermudian ties retires, a former premier warned yesterday. Sir John Swan said the decision by GK Butterfield, whose father was Bermudian, to stand down u...

Changes to Bermuda’s electricity grid will be needed to attract a range of new power technologies, the home affairs minister said. But scenarios being reviewed would not allow a new generation company to hook-up to the island’s present electricity gr...

A US congressman whose father was Bermudian and who helped secure the release of emergency equipment for the island as the Covid19 crisis hit, is to stand down from his seat. GK Butterfield, a Democrat, attacked Republicans for “racially gerrymanderi...

A minister has denied that lack of clarity on funding for a major youth initiative creates a credibility gap for the flagship project. Ernest Peets, Minister for Youth, Culture and Sport, made the claim today as he appealed for members of the public ...

The Government had “no intention” of tailoring its proposal to licence cannabis production to fit with the UK’s conventions that allows use of the drug for medicinal purposes only. David Burt, the Premier, underlined that legislation of cannabis in B...

Bermuda is a trail blazer in the race against time to combat the climate crisis, according to Walter Roban. A document the home affairs minister presented to the recent COP26 global warming summit in Glasgow sets out ways to protect Bermuda’s fragil...

A murdered British MP has been honoured by the Premier at a wreath-laying ceremony at Westminster. David Burt, in London for a UK Overseas Territories summit, was joined at the remembrance event for Sir David Amess by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker o...