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Sick and disabled people will be able to vote in elections from their home, under amendments approved on Friday night. The Parliamentary Election Amendment Bill also allows blind and visually impaired people to vote through a tactile voting device, i...

A war of words broke out between MPs over a police probe into a dairy container that carried drugs. Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker and a Progressive Labour Party member, claimed on Friday that white privilege stopped Michael Dunkley, a One Bermu...

The builders of an illegal dock in St George’s that was demolished this week showed “blatant disregard for the law”, the public works minister said last week. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told the House of Assembly his ministry wanted to work with ...

Temporary changes to Parliamentarians’ salaries and pension contributions equated to a reduction in pay, the Minister of Finance insisted. Curtis Dickinson dismissed a notion put forward by Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the shadow finance minister, last F...

The Government was accused yesterday of withholding information about a controversial dinner party that cost two Cabinet ministers their jobs. MPs heard yesterday that an application for 130 guests at Blu Bar & Grill Restaurant, dated June 26, was se...

The Government is to raise the debt ceiling by $600 million to $3.5 billion. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, tabled an amendment to the Government Loans Act 1978 to raise the statutory borrowing limit in the House of Assembly yesterday. He ad...

Mary Prince, the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom, wrote a book and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain, is to have a park renamed in her honour. Devonshire Bay Park on the South Shore will also get a monument to commemorat...

The Registrar of Companies will oversee dealers in high value goods after MPs passed legislation last night. The supervisory function will transfer from the Financial Intelligence Agency under the Registrar of Companies (Supervision and Regulations) ...

MPs approved amendments removing the requirement of people to be retired in order to apply for pension refunds. The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment No 2 was passed with no objection. The amendments allow members and former ...

Bermuda’s first woman Minister of National Security said she was “humbled” by her appointment yesterday. Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North, highlighted that she had spoken in the House of Assembly less than two weeks a...