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A motion to raise the retirement age goes up for debate today in the House of Assembly. Legislators heard on May 10 about plans to increase the retirement and pensionable age at the same time from 65 to 70 over a ten-year period, with the retirement ...

Controversial changes to healthcare financing were passed in the Senate yesterday after two government senators who had excused themselves because of illness returned for the vote. The Health Insurance Amendment Act was resisted by the three One Berm...

The Government will promote “a system of greater fairness and equity” through its new Cabinet Committee on Social Development, the Premier announced Friday. David Burt gave the House of Assembly details on the group, which has been tasked with a focu...

The Premier said he wanted to end controversy over the appointment of consultants and advisers to ministers as he tabled legal amendments in the House of Assembly Friday. David Burt said the Government will be required to publish all appointments and...

Wayne Caines, the national security minister, has given the public extra time to comment on work-permit policy. Mr Caines told the House of Assembly Friday that policies would be changed to seek “the right balance between the legitimate expectations ...

Bermuda’s Civil Service has been hampered by an “overly bureaucratic environment with a weak execution model”, according to David Burt. The Premier was updating MPs Friday on the tabling of the strategic plan for government reform, which will call up...

European Union finance ministers removed Bermuda from a blacklist of noncooperative tax jurisdictions yesterday. Representatives of the 28 EU countries struck Bermuda from Annex I of the EU list — the “blacklist” — and put the island in Annex II of t...

Repairs to a cruise ship terminal in Dockyard were completed ahead of schedule, the House of Assembly said yesterday. King’s Wharf was refurbished before the April 10 deadline that marked the start of the cruise ship season. Failure to finish on time...

A controversial Bill to change how Bermuda’s hospital is funded was passed last night. The Government is to pay an annual grant to the Bermuda Hospitals Board, capped at $330 million for the coming year, to replace the existing fee-for-service arran...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly admitted last night that he was perhaps wrong to allow comments from a Progressive Labour Party backbencher, who claimed that Bermuda’s longest-serving premier “tap-danced” for the “most reactionary and racist ele...