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David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities. More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...

Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Residents highlighted greater support for the underprivileged, seniors and people with mental health problems as areas for improvement as The Royal Gazette hit the streets of Hamilton to canvass views on the Progressive Labour Party’s performance in ...

Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed. Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”. The senior economics lecturer at Ber...

David Burt has challenged the pressure group Patients 1st to reveal its identity and meet with him over its campaign against proposed changes to the health insurance system. Speaking in the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, the Pr...

The national security minister said on Friday that he was not sure who had seen a special report on the island’s prison system. Wayne Caines told MPs: “I do not know to whom the report was given. We were given a confidential report ... and we’re loo...

The Information Commissioner’s Office moved to a new location on Friday so that its existing premises can be demolished. The Valerie T. Scott Building and the old Hamilton Police Station will be knocked down to make way for the Ottiwell Simmons Arbit...

Passport problems that have plagued some Bermudian travellers are being addressed, the Premier said. David Burt told MPs in the House of Assembly that the issue was one the Government was “continuing to engage on”. He said: “It is my hope that we wi...

“Changes are coming”, potentially at the board level, for the island’s independent tourism overseer, Zane DeSilva warned the House of Assembly on Friday night. The Bermuda Tourism Authority was blasted for its 2019 statistics showing record tourism n...