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A drive to create business opportunities should be launched by the Government, the One Bermuda Alliance said tonight. Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition and shadow finance minister, said that support was vital, particularly for the young becau...

The Opposition’s Reply to the Budget is scheduled to dominate today’s sitting of the House of Assembly. Cole Simons, the Opposition leader and shadow finance minister, will respond to the 2021-22 Budget delivered last Friday by Curtis Dickinson, the ...

A controversial law to legalise cannabis will be sent back to the House of Assembly after Senators voted against the bill yesterday afternoon. The Cannabis Licensing Act, which sets out a regulatory framework for growing, selling, and using the drug,...

More than half of the House of Assembly’s 36 MPs contributed to yesterday’s debate on the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and legal affairs minister, started the debate and claimed that the Act was a push bac...

Child and family welfare campaigners raised concerns yesterday about cannabis laws that are to be debated in the House of Assembly today. They feared that giving the green light to growing and selling the drug would send the wrong message to young pe...

Rena Lalgie made history two months ago when she became Bermuda’s first female and first Black Governor. This week, she sat down with The Royal Gazette to share some of her initial impressions on taking up the appointment and the island. One cor...

An online condolence book has been set up for people to pay tribute to a former government senator and Bermuda Industrial Union veteran. LaVerne Furbert was 74 when she died last month. The Cabinet Office announced today that the condolence book was ...

Major changes to Bermuda’s tax structure are needed to reduce the cost of living, according to the Premier. David Burt said at the Progressive Labour Party annual conference that difficult conversations may be needed to create a fairer tax system – o...

Exactly 100 days after David Burt led his Progressive Labour Party to an historic landslide election victory on October 1, 2020, the Premier sat down with The Royal Gazette for an exclusive interview on Friday. This is the full interview. Will t...

The Free Democratic Movement may have been out of the spotlight since its election defeat but it is gearing up to address the public early in the new year. This is according to Eugene Dean, a founding member of the island’s third political force who ...