Log In

A junior minister has claimed that the Government is not responsible for drawing up controversial laws to protect Bermuda’s waters from overfishing. Instead, the senator Lindsay Simmons said that the island’s “colonial status” meant that the Governme...

Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition, is in London this week at the British Overseas Territories Forum. Mr Simons attended to discuss common global challenges as well as unique individual legislature issues with Overseas Territories members. In ...

Bermuda could be more “forceful” in its stand-off with Britain over the legalisation of cannabis as the international enforcement of current laws is “tainted by racism”, a leading academic has stated. Professor William Bogart, who has written extens...

Passengers have been asked to give their opinion on how the introduction of 30 electric buses is working out. Wayne Furbert, the Minister of Transport, said that $50,000 had been saved in fuel costs since the vehicles began operating on the island in...

Payment is expected to be made in the next two weeks by the ruling party of the Bahamas to fully reimburse a trip made by the islands’ Prime Minister and others to Bermuda. Philip Davis visited with officials in October when he was a guest of the Pro...

Leading analysts have painted a bleak picture of Bermuda’s economic future in the wake of disappointing financial statistics. Craig Simmons, a Bermuda College lecturer, and Robert Stubbs, a researcher for the think-tank SEED, said that a lack of inve...

Bermuda’s role in the two world wars will be the topic of a presentation today that veterans’ advocate Carol Everson said might ruffle some feathers. Ms Everson, among those who fought a lengthy campaign to secure veterans’ benefits for soldiers who ...

A book detailing Black history has been republished after its initial print run sold out. Black History in Bermuda: Timeline Spanning 5 Centuries, put together by anti-racism charity Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, hit the shelves in Octobe...

Claims that no commercial farmers sit on the Board of Agriculture have been dismissed by the Government. The Bermuda Farmers Association made the allegation this week, claiming that the Board failed to represent the industry. A BFA spokesman said on ...

Bermuda’s economy contracted by 1.7 per cent in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest statistics. But Jason Hayward, the Minister of the Economy, said that the figures were distorted by “increased inflationary pressure”, and that G...