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The Government is to raise the debt ceiling by $600 million to $3.5 billion. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, tabled an amendment to the Government Loans Act 1978 to raise the statutory borrowing limit in the House of Assembly yesterday. He ad...

Mary Prince, the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom, wrote a book and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain, is to have a park renamed in her honour. Devonshire Bay Park on the South Shore will also get a monument to commemorat...

The Registrar of Companies will oversee dealers in high value goods after MPs passed legislation last night. The supervisory function will transfer from the Financial Intelligence Agency under the Registrar of Companies (Supervision and Regulations) ...

MPs approved amendments removing the requirement of people to be retired in order to apply for pension refunds. The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment No 2 was passed with no objection. The amendments allow members and former ...

Bermuda’s first woman Minister of National Security said she was “humbled” by her appointment yesterday. Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North, highlighted that she had spoken in the House of Assembly less than two weeks a...

The Premier added tourism to his economic development responsibilities yesterday as MPs Renée Ming and Neville Tyrrell were sworn in as Cabinet ministers. Ms Ming has taken the role of national security minister and Mr Tyrrell is the new transport mi...

A luxury housing development up for debate by MPs today has been defended as a “win-win” for the island. The special development order for the old Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club, which closed in 2016, came under fire from objectors who claimed i...

The new transport minister learnt of his appointment to the Cabinet only the night before the swearing-in ceremony yesterday. David Burt, the Premier, said both Neville Tyrrell and Renée Ming had been informed on Wednesday night. Mr Burt added: “Ther...

The Bermuda Housing Trust has received a clean and unqualified financial audit. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, tabled the Trust’s audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2019, in the House of Assembly tod...

The Bermuda Government responded to the risk of “new standards” in moving to make its beneficial ownership register public by 2023. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said the Government “did not wait for a crisis to appear before altering co...