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The Throne Speech was as heavy on the rhetoric of solidarity as it was light on the details of recovery. It took Rena Lalgie, the Governor, 8,241 words to say not very much at all. Not her fault as, apart from a few thoughts of her own tacked on at t...

A charity leader yesterday questioned the Government’s Throne Speech announcement that it would help the third sector get loans. Major Rob Kerr, The Salvation Army’s divisional commander for Bermuda, said his understanding was that the plan would be ...

A charity leader said yesterday she looked forward to consultation over Government plans to boost child protection. Nicola Paugh, the executive director of the Inter Agency Committee for Children, Families and the Community, said the organisation was...

The Throne Speech, under the title of “Social Renewal and Economic Recovery”, opened with the Governor’s reflection on the “definitive”, once-in-an-era change brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rena Lalgie told the gathering: “The wounds inflicted by ...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has questioned why a private accounting firm has been drafted in to oversee Government’s economic recovery plan. Marcus Jones, the shadow minister for economic development, also expressed concern that the plan appe...

Mass demonstrations at the climate crisis summit in Scotland were yesterday defended by the home affairs minister. Walter Roban, a delegate at the event in Glasgow, said he sympathised with activists such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environm...

With the Throne Speech scheduled for tomorrow, we look back at what happened to the pledges made in last year’s legislative blueprint - which was shorter than usual because of the Covid-19 emergency. Of 22 key pledges made last year, nearly half, 10,...

A shake-up of the One Bermuda Alliance shadow cabinet has been unveiled by the party’s leader. The move by Cole Simons comes just before the Government is to set out its plans for the year ahead with Friday’s Throne Speech. In the partial reshuffle o...

Workers have complained they are being taken advantage of through “precarious" contracts which labelled them as independent contractors, the labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward added people were worried that some businesses had used the eco...

Bermuda is on a “glide path” to a small budget surplus by 2023-24, the finance minister said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson added the country’s last round of borrowing was calculated to last until that financial year. Mr Dickinson said: “We have borrowe...