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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...

The Premier added tourism to his economic development responsibilities yesterday as MPs Renée Ming and Neville Tyrrell were sworn in as Cabinet ministers. Ms Ming has taken the role of national security minister and Mr Tyrrell is the new transport mi...

A luxury housing development up for debate by MPs today has been defended as a “win-win” for the island. The special development order for the old Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club, which closed in 2016, came under fire from objectors who claimed i...

The new transport minister learnt of his appointment to the Cabinet only the night before the swearing-in ceremony yesterday. David Burt, the Premier, said both Neville Tyrrell and Renée Ming had been informed on Wednesday night. Mr Burt added: “Ther...

The Bermuda Housing Trust has received a clean and unqualified financial audit. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, tabled the Trust’s audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2019, in the House of Assembly tod...

The Bermuda Government responded to the risk of “new standards” in moving to make its beneficial ownership register public by 2023. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said the Government “did not wait for a crisis to appear before altering co...

Cabinet appointments to the national security and tourism and transport portfolios will go ahead today. The replacements for Wayne Caines and Zane DeSilva, who both quit Cabinet last week over a public breach of Covid-19 health restrictions, were exp...

New Cabinet appointments for the portfolios of national security as well as tourism and transport are expected at Government House today. It comes in the wake of David Burt, the Premier, “inviting” Wayne Caines and Zane DeSilva to quit their minister...

A study has found a drop in drug use among the island’s schoolchildren, the Attorney-General has revealed. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate on Wednesday that a survey of public, private and home-schooled pupils conducted by the Department of Nation...

A law to protect the young from grooming for sex by people in positions of power was backed yesterday by the Senate. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said the Criminal Code Amendment Act would create a new crimi...