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A retroactive regime promising zero tolerance for corruption and graft would be a top priority by a Progressive Labour Party Government. Delivering his party’s “peace and prosperity agenda” in response to the Government’s Throne Speech, Marc Bean sai...

Much of Parliament’s eleven-hour Throne Speech debate revolved around whether or not the Island was truly making a recovery from the economic recession. Marc Bean, in the Progressive Labour Party’s reply, maintained that real growth had yet to revita...

The Bermuda Government and its own Accountant-General clashed last night over permission to depart from financial instructions in a bid to redevelop the Island’s airport. Curtis Stovell, the Accountant-General, told a meeting of the Public Accounts C...

Employers owe Government more than $100 million in social insurance and payroll tax contributions, it was revealed in the House of Assembly yesterday. The startling statistic came in response to a Parliamentary question to Bob Richards, the Minister ...

The cost of policing the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda was more than $100,000. Scores of police and reserve officers from a variety of departments worked a total of 2,522 hours for the spectacle that attracted thousands to Front St...

Bermuda College’s 2013 audited financial statements were laid before the House of Assembly yesterday revealing that the college had total assets worth just over $29 million. Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, told the House of Assembly: “During...

One Bermuda Alliance MPs Mark Pettingill and Suzann Roberts-Holshouser have voiced their opposition to “any form of discrimination” in response to a Royal Gazette poll on same-sex marriage. None of the other 34 Members of Parliament gave their opinio...

A damning report by the Auditor-General underlines the origins of Bermuda’s financial woes, according to the Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance. Bob Richards said the public had “every right to be upset” after the revelations contained in Heather...

“Children first” was the phrase used to describe the focus of the Ministry of Education during the Throne Speech on Friday. A raft of school improvement plans, which are under way and scheduled for completion by 2018, were outlined. Delivering a rela...

A pledge to commit to gender equality and a focus on human rights have piqued the interest of environmentalists. While the Throne Speech neglected to hit a few items from Greenrock’s wish list, Jonathan Starling said there were certainly things he we...