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The Government has used controversial cannabis legislation as part of a breakaway move from the UK, a shadow minister claimed yesterday. Michael Dunkley, the shadow minister of national security, said that drug reform had been used to pick a fight wi...

The Senate’s independents could hold the balance of power in a vote next week on a controversial Bill to create a legal framework senators in the Upper House for a cannabis industry. There are five Progressive Labour Party senators and three Oppositi...

Two new homes were created last year by the Bermuda Housing Trust despite problems created by the Covid-19 pandemic, MPs have been told. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said the BHT launched a renovation and conversion p...

Non-Bermudians will be able to become long-term residents if they invest a minimum of $2.5 million in the country, the Labour Minister announced yesterday. Jason Hayward unveiled the new economic investment certificate policy yesterday which will com...

More than half of the House of Assembly’s 36 MPs contributed to yesterday’s debate on the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and legal affairs minister, started the debate and claimed that the Act was a push bac...

The Premier said last night Bermuda’s relationship with the UK would suffer serious damage if a law to license cannabis production failed to get Royal Assent. David Burt said there were indications that the Governor would be unable to give assent to...

Maximum prices will be set for commonly used drugs under new legislation tabled in the House of Assembly this morning. Tabling amendments to the Bermuda Health Council Amendment Act, health minister Kim Wilson said it heralded “important and overdue ...

Bermuda has “tremendous opportunities” to take action on climate change, the Governor has said. Rena Lalgie added that younger generations will look for answers from their elders about what was done to address the global problem. Since her arrival tw...

Child and family welfare campaigners raised concerns yesterday about cannabis laws that are to be debated in the House of Assembly today. They feared that giving the green light to growing and selling the drug would send the wrong message to young pe...

The Government will be “held to account for its most recent activities” in the battle against the coronavirus as emergency health regulations go before MPs to be extended today in the House of Assembly. A string of Covid-19 regulations are scheduled ...