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Bermuda’s legislature has a revamped website which will help the public to ask MPs questions. Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker of the House, told MPs about the upgrade on Friday. The site will include a “virtual tour” through the House and the hom...

Tighter controls are to be imposed on Bermuda lawyers to limit the improper use of funds. Members of Parliament approved the changes to legislation designed to help the island comply with Financial Action Task Force rules. Kim Wilson, the Government’...

The Bermuda Monetary Authority’s regulations have been updated to keep in line with the island’s budding fintech industry. The amendments were brought to the House of Assembly on Friday by Wayne Furbert, the Junior Minister of Finance. The authority’...

MPs were slapped down for behaving like a “classroom of schoolchildren” by the Speaker of the House of Assembly yesterday. Dennis Lister Jr issued a stern warning after images of MPs asleep in the chamber circulated on social media. Mr Lister had “no...

The Auditor-General has urged the Bermuda Government to come up with a proper plan of action to “get to grips” with its mounting debt. Heather Thomas said that debt servicing costs were increasingly affecting the Government’s ability to provide servi...

Employment has risen, government revenues are up, spending is down and the deficit has been cut by 24 per cent, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt, also the finance minister, told the House of Assembly that “the facts totally disprove this tired ...

Debates on the treatment of sex offenders and the establishment of a minimum wage are expected to dominate what is expected to be a long session of the House of Assembly today. A report on wages called for the implementation of a minimum wage of $12...

Businessman Tarik Smith is the new deputy chairman of the One Bermuda Alliance. Mr Smith, who runs the Bermuda Commercial Laundry and Ord Road Laundry, was elected to fill the vacancy left by Justin Mathias, who was promoted to party chairman last mo...

Duty relief for the conversion of the Grand Atlantic housing complex in Warwick into a hotel is to be debated today in the House of Assembly. The legislation, tabled by public works minister Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch this morning, seeks to exemp...

The final piece of legislation in a raft of new safeguards to protect Bermuda from money laundering and terrorist funding was passed in the Senate today. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said the Bermuda Bar Amendment Act “further enhances ...