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New laws to outlaw drink driving on the water have been approved by the House of Assembly. The new requirements for private boats also included stricter blood alcohol limits for the operators of recreational vessels. Lawrence Scott, the transport min...

Unionised workers could strike if the Government moves forward with controversial labour reforms to be debated tomorrow in the House of Assembly. Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert warned at a press conference today that if Jason Hayw...

The top prosecutor’s appointment as a judge was held up for 16 months as a nine-year police investigation continued against a former premier, it was revealed yesterday. Work on a case against Ewart Brown kept Larry Mussenden, the former Director of P...

Senators focused on the increase in positive coronavirus cases during their session yesterday. During the Motion to Adjourn, Ernest Peets, Senate Leader and Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports, gave thanks to the staff members of Bermuda Hospitals...

It would be “almost suicidal” for the Government to collect less land tax from the public after the financial hit it has incurred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Michelle Simmons, Vice President of the Senate, said reductions in rental prices ...

Two leading lawyers will discuss the key role of Magna Carta in the rule of law at a talk at the Bermuda National Gallery tomorrow. The talk, by Ben Adamson and Saul Dismont, will follow the unveiling of a limited edition reproduction of the Magna Ca...

Bermuda cannot relax its management of Government finances despite a successful debt issue of $1.35 billion this summer, the finance minister warned today. Curtis Dickinson told the House of Assembly that the Government took on $520 million in new l...

The Premier today released details of costs for Government and Opposition personal staff for the last financial year. The top earner was Owen Darrell, David Burt’s Chief of Staff, on $127,619 a year in 2019-20. Mr Burt’s other expenses included a hou...

A Government Senator claimed yesterday that the transfer of the L Frederick Wade International Airport to a public private partnership was directly connected to the financial struggles some Bermudians are facing now. Owen Darrell, the junior minist...

If Kathy Lynn Simmons has her way, the image of civil servants as paper-pushing bureaucrats will be a thing of the past by 2023. The Attorney General said that the Government aimed to be a paperless organisation in three years’ time, with all forms ...