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Visiting cruise ships are set to be allowed to keep their casinos open when in port after MPs passed the Cruise Ship (Casino) Act 2013 early this morning. The concession — allowing on-board casinos to operate between 9pm and 5am — would ensure Bermud...

Finance Minister Bob Richards has declined to give evidence to a parliamentary select committee on elections. The bipartisan committee, chaired by Opposition MP Walton Brown, was formed, primarily, to determine what election candidates are required t...

Legislation forging “a more welcoming environment” for new companies to come to Bermuda, and for business leaders to live on the Island, has been approved by MPs. The Incentives for Job Makers Act 2013 got a spirited defence from Premier Craig Cannon...

Plans to devise a long-term infrastructure development strategy were scrapped by Government before they could be drawn up, according to Environment and Planning Minister Sylvan Richards. Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday, Mr Richards dismis...

House of Assembly passes Tourism Authority Act By Owain Johnston-Barnes, Ceola Wilson and Jonathan Bell After a marathon debate, Bermuda’s legislators last night passed legislation that forms the framework of a new Tourism Authority. Presenting the b...

The Attorney General is to review a controversial plan by the cash-strapped Corporation of Hamilton to introduce “aggressive” car clamping and pay-and-display parking tariffs on all roads in the city. The scheme, which will be phased in from next mon...

United Bermuda Party candidates who declared interest in Government contracts in the 2007 general election failed to do so as One Bermuda Alliance candidates, according to Shadow Finance Minister David Burt. Addressing the Parliamentary Election Comm...

Government’s decision to send a Bermuda delegation to a conference in Miami has been branded “a junket on South Beach” by the Opposition. Premier Craig Cannonier, along with three Ministers and three civil servants, are attending the two-day KPMG Isl...