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Welcome to The Royal Gazette’s live coverage of the House of Assembly, which started at 10am. MPs are now on the motion to adjourn, where the resignation of Curtis Dickinson as finance minister is the main topic of debate. Ministerial statements on ...

The House of Assembly will return today for the first time since Curtis Dickinson’s shock resignation as finance minister. David Burt, the Premier, has taken over the key role with a week to go before the blueprint for the next financial year is unv...

The Mayor of Hamilton yesterday stayed tight-lipped over the Government’s decision to postpone elections for the island’s two municipalities for a year. Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, said he could not comment until he had seen the legislati...

The education minister yesterday apologised for “any discomfort caused” by a social media post that suggested all those around him were losing their heads and blaming him. Diallo Rabain made the post – a quote from If, a poem by British writer Rudya...

The Premier has denied that Curtis Dickinson’s shock resignation as finance minister was due to a bust-up over Government support for the $200 million Fairmont Southampton hotel redevelopment. David Burt said: “I don’t believe that is accurate to say...

A new senator was sworn in yesterday morning to replace disgraced ex-member of the Upper House Curtis Richardson. A ceremony at Government House saw the Reverend Emilygail Dill fill the vacant post and also become a junior minister for National Secur...

An Opposition senator accused the Premier of playing favourites with the appointment of MPs and senators to Government boards. Marcus Jones, the shadow economic development minister, told the Upper House that David Burt awarded influential positions ...

A Cabinet minister said she was motivated to get into politics to get “a foot in the door” to help vulnerable people. Tinée Furbert highlighted that she gained valuable experience in the field because she worked in psychiatric hospitals and with disa...

The island’s longest-serving premier last night criticised the way the shock resignation of finance minister Curtis Dickinson was handled. Sir John Swan warned that the mishandling of the crisis by David Burt, the Premier, would hurt the economy and ...

Emilygail Dill was this morning sworn in as the new Government senator to replace Curtis Richardson who stepped down last month. The Reverend Dr Dill was sworn in by the Governor, Rena Lalgie, in a short ceremony at Government House. David Burt, the ...