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The head of a billion-dollar data and software company located in Bermuda has been accused of sexual misconduct. Zia Chishti, the founder and chief executive officer of Bermuda-based Afiniti, has been accused of pressuring a former employee into havi...

A senator yesterday fought back tears as she told colleagues about her rape ordeal. The emotional moment came ahead of a vigil in Hamilton calling for more support for victims of domestic violence and abuse. Lindsay Simmons, junior minister for Socia...

A bid to cut antisocial behaviour and boost the potential for Bermuda’s youth has been set out in the Senate. Ernest Peets, Youth, Culture and sports minister, said the initiative would now be considered by a working group. He said the Government was...

A former education Permanent Secretary yesterday questioned if she would ever face a Progressive Labour Party disciplinary committee over her opposition to the closure of a historic primary school. Ellen-Kate Horton, a veteran PLP member who was thre...

Police have insisted they need extra cash in next February’s Budget to boost the number of officers, the national security minister has revealed. Renee Ming said cuts to police resources this year had been “unfortunate” and asked for a boost to law a...

Details of the new Children’s Commission’s powers will be made public in the next month, the Government said yesterday. Tinee Furbert, the Social Development and Seniors Minister, promised that the “flagship” policy to replace the Child Care Place...

A care worker was blocked from getting to the house of an elderly disabled man because of major flooding, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The caregiver could not get his bike along Mill Creek Road in Pembroke last Monday after the street, a notorious f...

The $3.5 million overpaid in unemployment benefits over the Covid-19 crisis is being targeted for return, the labour minister has insisted. Jason Hayward said: “I know that the Ministry of Finance has a team working hard to recover those funds. “The ...

A “leave no one behind approach” should be adopted by governments as part of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, a regional conference heard. The news came as Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, outlined discussions a...

David Burt has defended the pace of constitutional reform after the same promises on changes in the relationship with the UK were made in two successive Throne Speeches. The Premier insisted that it was wrong to say very little had been done on the ...