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A Parliamentary watchdog held its first meeting of the year on Tuesday. The Parliamentary Standing Committee met days before the House of Assembly is scheduled to return next Friday after its Christmas break. Newly-appointed members of the PAC held t...

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 ...

Former Cabinet Minister Jamahl Simmons has stood down from the chairmanship of a government quango. Mr Simmons became chairman of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation last August, replacing Neville Grant, who was demoted to deputy chairman. B...

The Opposition has condemned the Progressive Labour Party for “taking for ever” to tackle changes to immigration policy. Ben Smith, the One Bermuda Alliance Senate Leader, said he had spent more than two years on the bipartisan committee on immigrati...

A former Bermuda resident has come under fire for her use of US funds as the American ambassador to South Africa. The Washington International Diplomatic Academy, a diplomatic training organisation, claimed that Lana Marks – a luxury handbag designer...

The introduction of unemployment insurance is being considered after the Government paid out million of dollars in benefits in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. The news came after it was revealed an extra 400 families had been forced to rely on Finan...

A family has alleged that Government maladministration cost them land in Southampton. The Darrell family told the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Loss yesterday that records show they owned a section of land bisected by Riviera Estates Road ...

The cost of collecting taxes on income would be enormous and would require a “swelling” of the civil service, a former Minister of Finance has warned. In an opinion piece in today’s Royal Gazette, Bob Richards also said the burden of such taxes,...

Landscape work at a development site on a former golf course had helped boost the environment for birds, the Minister of Home Affairs has said. Walter Roban added “a great deal of hard work” had gone into the creation of parkland at the old Riddell’...

A group set up to make recommendations on minimum and living wages is expected to take into account workers who earn tips, the labour minister has said. Jason Hayward added that no employment sector will be left out of the commission’s deliberation. ...