7347 results returned for search: "" category ("Politics" AND "News")
David Burt will give an overview of his first year in office in a national address tomorrow.
The Premier’s address, at 6.40pm, will be carried by CITV, One Communications channel 2 and Wow channel 102 as well as the website www.gov.bm/whats-on-citv a...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
Roadside breath tests were backed by the Senate today.
Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the Upper House that the legislation covered the setting up of checkpoints, as well as obtaining breath testing equipment and the formalising of pre...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Training methods have been improved at the Royal Bermuda Regiment, national security minister Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly on Friday.
Mr Caines said the second recruit intake of 2018 has taken the total soldiers recruited this year to 65, ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Premier confirmed the Bermuda Government’s purchase of the Park Place building, understood to be the IAS Park building on Hamilton’s Church Street, as a fintech space.
David Burt told Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin that the building had be...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The One Bermuda Alliance alleged this afternoon that voters’ contact details, filed with the office of the Parliamentary Registrar, had been shared with the Progressive Labour Party for election campaigns dating back to 2012.
The statement was issued...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Land owners will be able to register their property without going through a lawyer after a change in legislation was passed in the House of Assembly.
The Land Title Registration Amendment Act 2018 will allow members of the public to carry out volunta...
DATE: Jul 16, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Thousands of people at home and abroad have been canvassed for their views on the future of Bermuda tourism.
Jamahl Simmons, the tourism minister, told the House of Assembly on Friday that the Ministry of Economic Development and Tourism and the Berm...
DATE: Jul 16, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Department of Corrections is to begin an internal security review of prisons, Wayne Caines told MPs in the House of Assembly last Friday.
Mr Caines, the Minister of National Security, said he would also meet representatives of the Prison Officers...
DATE: Jul 16, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
Animals will have greater protection from cruelty after legislators gave the go-ahead for animal welfare officers to enter and inspect places where they are kept.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, told the House of Assembly that a law chang...
DATE: Jul 16, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said he would investigate “all sorts of questions” arising from the Westover Farm saga.
The public works minister confirmed yesterday that the notice to quit the Sandys farm had been cancelled after he talked with tenan...
DATE: Jul 14, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell