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The One Bermuda Alliance has joined environmental groups in opposition of proposed changes to planning legislation. The amendments, tabled earlier this month by Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, would remove the need for Special Development...

An absence of traditional political boundaries is often a key feature of Bermuda lobby groups. Some representatives said that they attracted support from across society and were confident that grass roots organisations made an impact. A spokesperson ...

Bermuda has seen the emergence of a number of new community action groups – Pride Bermuda, the Bermuda Freedom Alliance, Social Justice Bermuda to name three. But can these develop into mainstream political parties, or can their members become ou...

An unlicensed debt collection company recovered almost $13 million in unpaid land tax for the Government – and is likely to be paid $1.9 million in return. Oarrs Inc collected the money after it was hired as a debt collection consultant by the Office...

David Burt, the Premier, has been accused of dodging Parliamentary debate on controversial Covid-19 quarantine regulations for a second time. Government tabled the order making hotel quarantines mandatory for non-immunised arrivals at the end of last...

A joint statement backed by the Bermuda Human Rights Commission offers support to the people of South Africa following the imprisonment of the country’s former President Jacob Zuma. The letter is signed by several prominent members of Bermuda’s comm...

Debt collectors will get a break on reporting their accounts for 2020 because of the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the House of Assembly heard. But the Debt Collection Amendment Act 2021, despite using the word “exempt”, will ...

An exemption for large groups to attend league cricket drew hundreds of spectators to matches over the weekend, but the relaxation of SafeKey rules drew criticism from the One Bermuda Alliance. The “moving targets” in the island’s Covid-19 restricti...

Complaints linked to Covid-19 accounted for a significant portion of the Ombudsman for Bermuda’s caseload last year, according to the office’s 2020 annual report. They ranged from emergency unemployment benefits for people put out of work to pandemic...

Immigration laws are to be subjected to a “top down review”, the Minister of Labour announced on Friday. Jason Hayward said the goal of immigration reform “is to ensure that the big picture is one that benefits all of Bermuda”. “In the past, we have...