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A decision not to release correspondence between the Government and the UK on the $250 million airport redevelopment project has been upheld by the Information Commissioner’s Office. Answer Styannes, the Acting Information Commissioner, said the docu...

Legislation to require non-Bermudians be enrolled in a pension scheme was approved in the Senate on Wednesday. The National Pension Scheme (Operational Pensions) Amendment Act will also allow seniors to withdraw up to 25 per cent of their pension sav...

Senators are expected to debate changes to the national pension scheme today to require expatriate workers to be enrolled. But the Government will be short a senator in the wake of the election of Jason Hayward to the House of Assembly. A PLP spokesw...

Bermuda needs more women on government boards, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre said yesterday. Elaine Butterfield said: “It would allow for a more balanced perspective in decision-making in all aspects of community life. Ms Bu...

Three law pupils are expected to join the Ministry of Legal Affairs next year, the Attorney-General told the Senate yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, who is Minister of Legal Affairs, said the return of the ministry’s pupillage programme had already pro...

An application for the release of further communications between the Bermuda Health Council and the Chief Medical Officer about two prominent physicians has been denied. However the Information Commissioner has approved the release of one record and ...

A tender for outside help to help cut spending has been scrapped by the Government. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said that he had decided to cancel a request for proposal for spend analysis services. Mr Furbert added: “Althou...

Bermuda should invest in algae farms to help fight climate change, a Progressive Labour Party MP backbencher urged. Dennis Lister III said that the island should look at “exploring algae cultivation as a means of combating this imminent issue”. He a...

Claims that proposed healthcare reforms have been rushed are wrong, Bermuda’s health minister said. Kim Wilson said that it was “wholly inaccurate to suggest” that the Bermuda Health Plan had been hurried. She added: “The purpose of this discussion...

Yearly road crash figures appear to have decreased as a result of breath-test checkpoints, national security minister Wayne Caines said on Friday in the House of Assembly. The minister said the island had recorded 1,117 collisions so far this year, c...