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Senators have ditched amendments to legislation designed to create a legal framework for ministers to appoint experts and political advisers. They passed the Premier, Ministers and Opposition Leader Personal Staffs Act 2019 after MPs rejected a rewor...

Legislation for the creation of an independent wage commission is to be tabled this morning in the House of Assembly. The proposed law will be based on the recommendations of a joint select committee that recommended the establishment of a minimum an...

Bermuda’s bipartisan immigration reform plan is to be tabled in the House of Assembly next week, the Minister of National Security said yesterday. Wayne Caines said that the plan would take into consideration the needs of business and of Bermuda as a...

Steps to bring the Bermuda Post Office “up to the 21st century” have begun, the Cabinet Office minister said this morning. Wayne Furbert said that the Government “is now in the process of enhancing the information technology services and products” p...

Financial statements of the Regulatory Authority were tabled in the House of Assembly this morning. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, tabled the annual financial statements of the RA for fiscal years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Mr Roban...

More than 100 pupils from Bermuda’s public high schools will attend Bermuda College, the education minister said today. Diallo Rabain told MPs that 109 students from the Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy had enrolled. He added: “This is up...

Changes to the management of sex offenders in prison are working, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs said this morning. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate: “Sex offenders who do not complete the required programmes during incarceratio...

The Premier said yesterday that no decision had been made to change House of Assembly sittings to every two weeks. David Burt said that he had decided to have the House sit on just two Fridays in June instead of the normal sessions every Friday. He ...

The Premier has accused the British Government of an attempt to impose “modern-day colonialism”. David Burt said that the Overseas Territories would resist efforts by the British Government to enforce public registers of beneficial ownership. He adde...

Politicians from British Overseas Territories gathered in the Cayman Islands this week for a summit. David Burt, the Premier, was among those at the event, preparation for a Joint Ministerial Council meeting in London later this year. The session was...