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A law to clear the criminal convictions of people caught with small amounts of cannabis has stalled because old documents often failed to quantify the amounts of drugs involved

A road map for redrawing Bermuda’s constitution will be developed in consultation with the British Government, MPs were told. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the Budget debate for the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Friday that constituti...

Juvenile court cases soared in 2021, MPs heard on Friday in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the House that new cases sent to the family courts dropped nearly one third in 2021 over the previous year. But she adde...

Bermuda’s independent watchdog against financial crime continues to fight money laundering and terrorist financing despite its “limited resources”. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said the Financial Intelligence Agency had been budgeted $1....

The value of Russian assets held in Bermuda is unknown, the British Government has said. But a parliamentary briefing paper issued last week quoted a 2018 report from Global Witness which claimed Bermuda-based companies had received $7.1 billion in d...

A final bill for repair work to a pilot boat damaged last year is still to be delivered, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, told MPs that the Department of Marine and Ports awaited “the final invoices relat...

Moving more people from unemployment benefit to Financial Assistance will help identify barriers to employment, the economy and labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward said: “Our aim is to transition as much people as we possibly can on to the ...

Welcome to today's live coverage of the Budget debate. Stay tuned for live updates.

Education minister, Diallo Rabain, has denied that Government foot-dragging over deciding when eight primary schools will shut in a major shake-up has left parents in limbo. Ministers first announced the radical reforms in December 2020, but work on ...

Jason Hayward, the Minister of Economy and Labour, and the Minister of Education, Diallo Rabain, will talk on the Budget and how it affects their ministries.