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Municipal elections in May will be postponed for a year after home affairs minister Walton Brown launched an attack on the Corporation of Hamilton’s “failures of accountability”. The Municipalities Amendment Act, tabled yesterday by Mr Brown, will gi...

Tough new rules to crack down on sexual harassment at work are in the pipeline. Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said yesterday that he wanted to introduce new labour laws to combat the problem. Mr Brown is to bring London-based feminist M...

The former executive director of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission was barred yesterday by a court from any discussion of his time in charge of the regulatory body. Lawyers acting for the BCGC won a temporary order from Chief Justice Ian Kawaley i...

Hospital fees are to be adjusted in a move that will raise some costs and lower others, the health minister told the House of Assembly yesterday. Kim Wilson told MPs the changes will be “revenue-neutral to the hospital” and said the relative value me...

The Bermuda Government’s processing of insurance is to become more efficient, according to health minister Kim Wilson, with the approval of the Health Insurance Amendment Bill 2018. Ms Wilson told MPs that the legislation would “merge the Health Insu...

Sales of medicinal products containing the marijuana-derived drug cannabidiol have gone ahead “without incident”, the Minister of Health said yesterday. Kim Wilson told MPs that CBD products had been bought in pharmacies without a prescription and ov...

The man fighting the repeal of same-sex marriage has described the intention of politicians to try to increase LGBTQ tourism to Bermuda as “pretty ballsy”. Rod Ferguson reacted after Jamahl Simmons, the Minister of Economic Development and Tourism, t...

The Shadow Minister of Sport and Youth Development has called on the Government to do more to help Bermuda’s athletes reach their goals. Ben Smith told the House of Assembly that a “small increase” in funds for national sports governing bodies was “...

A nurse by profession, Kim Young carried her caring approach into her political career, former colleagues said yesterday. MPs paid tribute to the human rights activist and former United Bermuda Party Cabinet minister at the House of Assembly yesterda...

Regulations for casino gambling are to be introduced “without further delay”, tourism minister Jamahl Simmons told the House of Assembly yesterday. Mr Simmons blamed past members of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission for delays leading to a “stumbl...