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The Human Rights Commission has been told to reconsider a decision to withhold records under public access to information laws. Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez ordered the independent body to issue a new decision by November 3 to The Roy...

Olympic gold medal-winner Flora Duffy was praised by senators during a short session of the Upper House yesterday. Supporting a proclamation that a public holiday be held on October 18 in honour of the triathlete, Independent senator Michelle Simmons...

Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have been approved for international adoptions. Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said she had cleared the two countries at the request of the Department of Child and Family Services. Approve...

Emergency services personnel have been trained in disaster victim identification after a knowledge gap was noticed. Renée Ming, the national security minister, said Steve Cosham, the national disaster co-ordinator approached the UK Foreign Commonweal...

A rift between the ruling Progressive Labour Party and the Bermuda Industrial Union widened yesterday after the BIU president accused the Government of a failure to listen to its grassroots support. Chris Furbert said the two had always been natural ...

The principle of open government will be celebrated with countries around the world today. A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner’s Office said International Right to Know Day was designed “to increase individuals’ awareness of their right t...

A streamlined way to help long-term residents get permanent residency has been approved by the House of Assembly. The changes proposed by Jason Hayward, the labour minister, opened a route to residency for non-Bermudian divorced people and unwed pare...

Business voters for Corporation of Hamilton elections were asked to make sure their details were up to date. Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, said that elections were scheduled for next year. Mr Gosling said: “The Parliamentary Registrar is cu...

The island’s healthcare system could collapse “in the near future” without action, MPs heard yesterday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, told the House of Assembly that the coronavirus pandemic had put strain on the health service and exposed area...

Three MPs apologised to the House of Assembly yesterday for comments they made two months ago. Neville Tyrrell and Christopher Famous, Progressive Labour Party backbenchers, and Craig Cannonier, the One Bermuda Alliance Shadow Minister for Public Wor...