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A national plan is needed to tackle the issue of homelessness in Bermuda, according to Opposition MP Michael Weeks. Opening a take-note debate in the House of Assembly on Friday, the Shadow Minister of Health and Community Affairs said treating homel...

A motion to look into allegations of “extortion and bribery” against three government ministers was withdrawn last night by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. The motion, which was tabled by Mr Furbert, proposed that the House should discuss calling on the...

Broad-based tax increases were among the key recommendations of an independent report on the Bermuda’s Government’s efforts to stabilise its finances. The Fiscal Responsibility Panel (FRP), made up of three overseas experts, suggested that the Govern...

Further questions about public access to Fort St Catherine’s Beach were raised in the Senate this week, but Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, responded that the issues were answered in the recently tabled lease for the project. Leases for t...

Michael Dunkley has lambasted the suggestion that he is in cohoots with Ewart Brown, the former Premier, to have Marc Bean ousted. Several sources told this newspaper that the Leader of the Opposition was heard making the statement at a meeting held...

A lively debate lies ahead in the House of Assembly today over new defence legislation, which leaves conscription intact at the Royal Bermuda Regiment. The One Bermuda Alliance have made repeated promises to do away with the practice, but conscriptio...

Diallo Rabain, the Opposition Leader in the Senate, has been named as the Progressive Labour Party’s candidate in Devonshire North Central. The announcement was made at Alaska Hall yesterday by Marc Bean, who called him “a dedicated individual who al...

Two senior Ministry of Finance officials are at odds over whether adequate permission was sought for the Bermuda Government’s deal to build a new airport terminal. “Clearly we are at an impasse,” David Burt, the Shadow Minister of Finance, said at t...

Several pieces of legislation were approved in the Senate on Wednesday, with both parties expressing unanimous support. The Perpetuities and Accumulations Amendment Act, tabled by Senator Jeff Baron, the Junior Minister for National Security, was des...

Steps to modernise the Royal Bermuda Regiment have been supported by the Opposition in Parliament, but the retention of conscription has come under strong criticism. While Michael Dunkley said that conscription would be eliminated, the Progressive La...