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A long-running police investigation into claims of corruption against former Premier Ewart Brown has cost more than $2.2 million to date, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The amount has been disclosed after a public access to information request from th...

Campaigners supporting the Bermuda Government’s Pathways legislation are calling for immigration talks to encompass those born on the island or who arrived at a young age. The We Support Pathways Facebook group is voicing concern at Progressive Labou...

Senator Michael Fahy has thanked minibus and taxi drivers who continued providing services despite a withdrawal of labour on Friday and yesterday. Mr Fahy, the tourism and transport minister, also repeated his pledge to talk with industry figures to ...

A culture of secrecy obscures the island’s reporting of suicide figures, Parliament heard, as the latest statistics for births, marriages and deaths were tabled. The 2015 report from the Registrar General listed 583 births, up 9 per cent from 2014; t...

It is likely to be a year before the Human Rights Amendment Act, turned down by the Senate, can be brought back to Parliament by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert said he had sought three legal opinions after Thursday’s narrow 6-5 defeat in the...

The health of the island’s bee population came up for discussion during the motion to adjourn at the Senate. Senator Georgia Marshall, of the One Bermuda Alliance, spoke about the importance of looking after Bermuda’s bees and warned: “If we lose our...

Legislation paving the way for the first pensions and benefits hike in five years for more than 12,000 seniors has been approved by senators. The Contributory Pension Order 2016 will take effect from next month and involves increases of 5 per cent fo...

Parliamentarians and senators have paid tribute to Johnny Barnes, who died in the early hours of last Saturday at the age of 93. In the House of Assembly yesterday, several MPs rose to express their condolences to Mr Barnes’s family as well as share ...

Taxi drivers are refusing to work this weekend after transport minister Senator Michael Fahy declined to take his controversial minicar Bill off the table. The move could have a serious impact on thousands of tourists, as the cruise ship Anthem of th...

The Bermuda Government has already spoken with British Government officials regarding the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. But Michael Dunkley told the House of Assembly yesterday that the implications of Brexit remained unclear. Having alre...