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By Ayo Johnson Televised proceedings of House of Assembly deliberations, more use of committees and additional resources for parliamentarians are on Randolph Horton’s wish list before he makes an exit from the legislature. In his first interview sinc...

A squabble over parliamentary procedure saw the same half-hour of Budget presentation read out twice in the House of Assembly. Speaker of the House Randy Horton was thwarted in his attempt to present briefs on non-Ministry Departments. Announcing tha...

Randolph Horton thought long and hard before deciding he would accept the nomination to be Speaker of the House of Assembly. The Southampton West MP said he did not approach Premier Craig Cannonier about the role, and had received some criticism from...

Community Minister Wayne Scott claimed yesterday he delivered a four-hour statement to Parliament at the request of the Progressive Labour Party, so it wouldn’t have to debate his Ministry’s spending plans. Mr Scott said Shadow Minister Michael Weeks...

Shadow Community Development Minister Michael Weeks would have taken Government to task for drastic cuts in the Ministry’s funding had he contributed to Monday’s debate on budgetary allocations for the Ministry. Each of the department’s six heads suf...

Community Minister Wayne Scott prevented debate on his Ministry’s spending plans yesterday, by delivering a statement lasting four hours to the House of Assembly. But Government later denied suggestions that it was trying to stifle debate, saying tha...

Money for training Bermudian automotive collision repair professionals, butchers, nurses and teachers has been set aside in next year’s budget, Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said yesterday. And cruise lines have been approached with a view to de...

Three bills to implement measures to raise extra Government revenues were tabled in the House of Assembly. Parliament is now set to debate the Motor Car Amendment Act 2013 which would raise vehicle licensing fees by three percent for all vehicle cla...

The Budget Speech and the Progressive Labour Party reply were heavily debated in the House of Assembly on Friday. Government said the budget was an honest assessment of the state of the Island, but the Opposition said it lacked the bold thinking requ...