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Plans aimed at powering Bermuda out of the economic slump triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic were unveiled by the Government yesterday. The Throne Speech delivered by Governor Rena Lalgie on behalf of the ruling PLP administration focused on building...

The Constitution and parts of the island’s governance are in line to be updated in the new session of Parliament, it was announced in the Throne Speech yesterday. Rena Lalgie, the Governor, who delivered the speech on behalf of the Government, said t...

Here are five things we learnt from today’s Throne Speech: 1) A day of firsts: Rena Lalgie, the Governor, made history as the first woman, and the first Black person, to deliver the Speech from the Throne. She used the occasion to subtly, but fi...

The Throne Speech was as heavy on the rhetoric of solidarity as it was light on the details of recovery. It took Rena Lalgie, the Governor, 8,241 words to say not very much at all. Not her fault as, apart from a few thoughts of her own tacked on at t...

A charity leader yesterday questioned the Government’s Throne Speech announcement that it would help the third sector get loans. Major Rob Kerr, The Salvation Army’s divisional commander for Bermuda, said his understanding was that the plan would be ...

A charity leader said yesterday she looked forward to consultation over Government plans to boost child protection. Nicola Paugh, the executive director of the Inter Agency Committee for Children, Families and the Community, said the organisation was...

The Throne Speech, under the title of “Social Renewal and Economic Recovery”, opened with the Governor’s reflection on the “definitive”, once-in-an-era change brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rena Lalgie told the gathering: “The wounds inflicted by ...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has questioned why a private accounting firm has been drafted in to oversee Government’s economic recovery plan. Marcus Jones, the shadow minister for economic development, also expressed concern that the plan appe...

Mass demonstrations at the climate crisis summit in Scotland were yesterday defended by the home affairs minister. Walter Roban, a delegate at the event in Glasgow, said he sympathised with activists such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environm...

With the Throne Speech scheduled for tomorrow, we look back at what happened to the pledges made in last year’s legislative blueprint - which was shorter than usual because of the Covid-19 emergency. Of 22 key pledges made last year, nearly half, 10,...