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A raft of business legislation will go before MPs today in the House of Assembly, as well as a Bill tightening the island’s crime-fighting regime. MPs are set to debate the Companies Amendment (No. 2) Act 2017, along with the Payroll Tax Amendment (N...

Collaboration and cordiality were the orders of the day as a new group of senators gathered for their first debate on the Throne Speech yesterday. But that did not stop some of the old accusations from flying between the rival parties during the Moti...

The economy and jobs for Bermudians were among the major topics discussed in the Senate yesterday as the Throne Speech was debated. One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe said he believed that the focus for job creation should be on the private sect...

Patricia Gordon-Pamplin says she has evidence of a planned trip to New York involving politicians, including David Burt, the Premier. “I would not have asked a question in the Throne Speech response if I did not have supporting evidence to show that...

“Children first and families first.” That was the overriding message from the Bermuda Government last night as it hosted a town hall meeting to further detail proposals outlined in the Throne Speech. Several hundred residents descended on the Berkele...

An investigation is under way to determine whether police personnel leaked images connected to a planned trip to New York involving David Burt, the Premier, and other politicians. Acting Commissioner Paul Wright confirmed that complaints had been rec...

Children whose parents cannot afford homes with large yards will benefit from a Throne Speech pledge to protect public open spaces, according to environmental group BEST. BEST said Bermuda’s acres of forests and meadows were “dwindling” and praised t...

A Bermuda delegation participated in a plaque exchange on the cruise ship MS Aurora. The meeting came as the P&O ship made a short stop-over at King’s Wharf in Dockyard. Transport minister Walter Roban led the delegation on board the Bermuda-register...

David Burt, the Premier, has dismissed a trip to meet would-be gaming operators in New York as a “figment of the imagination” of the former government. The purported trip, a source of controversy in social media in the run-up to the July General Elec...

Assertions that the One Bermuda Alliance overspent on the America’s Cup were attacked as “political grandstanding” and “pathetic” by Grant Gibbons, the Shadow Minister of Economic Development. The claims came from David Burt, the Premier and Minister...