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MPs donated their DNA to help medical science. Carika Weldon, a Bermudian scientist at Oxford University in Britain, was at the House of Assembly last Friday to collect DNA samples as part of a study into genetic factors that led to diabetes. The pro...

Four of five new trash trucks suffered minor damage during offloading but are expected to be in use this month. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, Minister of Public Works, shared the news in his ministerial statement during Friday’s return to Parliamen...

A clerk from the British Parliament, who spent two weeks on the island working with Bermuda’s Public Accounts Committee, returned to the UK on Saturday. Stephen McGinness, a Clerk of the House of Commons’ PAC, visited to help the Bermuda committee wi...

The Mayor of St George said last night she was “saddened and disappointed” by proposals to axe the two local authorities on the island. Now, Quinell Francis has asked residents and business owners in the St George’s area to attend a special town hall...

A proposal that financial assistance could be clawed back from the estates of dead recipients would penalise families, the head of a charity said yesterday. Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the organisation feared a bid t...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly marked 30 years as an MP yesterday. Dennis Lister, the Progressive Labour Party’s longest-serving MP, celebrated the anniversary on February 9. He told MPs on the first sitting of the new parliamentary session tha...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly yesterday blocked a statement on payments to pepper-sprayed protesters who forced a postponement of a House of Assembly meeting. Dennis Lister told Wayne Caines, the national security minister, to postpone his sta...

A clash between protesters and police outside the House of Assembly will be discussed by the national security minister today. Wayne Caines will talk about the aftermath of the December 2016 events in the wake of revelations that his ministry had mad...

Consultation on a planning blueprint for Bermuda will end in March, Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, announced today. The draft Bermuda Plan was published in December and after the consultation period will go to a tribunal to be finalised. Mr...

Training opportunities for Bermudians will increase after resources were boosted in the Government’s workforce development department, the House of Assembly heard today. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said staff t...