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The Auditor-General has urged the Bermuda Government to come up with a proper plan of action to “get to grips” with its mounting debt. Heather Thomas said that debt servicing costs were increasingly affecting the Government’s ability to provide servi...

Employment has risen, government revenues are up, spending is down and the deficit has been cut by 24 per cent, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt, also the finance minister, told the House of Assembly that “the facts totally disprove this tired ...

Debates on the treatment of sex offenders and the establishment of a minimum wage are expected to dominate what is expected to be a long session of the House of Assembly today. A report on wages called for the implementation of a minimum wage of $12...

Businessman Tarik Smith is the new deputy chairman of the One Bermuda Alliance. Mr Smith, who runs the Bermuda Commercial Laundry and Ord Road Laundry, was elected to fill the vacancy left by Justin Mathias, who was promoted to party chairman last mo...

Duty relief for the conversion of the Grand Atlantic housing complex in Warwick into a hotel is to be debated today in the House of Assembly. The legislation, tabled by public works minister Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch this morning, seeks to exemp...

The final piece of legislation in a raft of new safeguards to protect Bermuda from money laundering and terrorist funding was passed in the Senate today. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said the Bermuda Bar Amendment Act “further enhances ...

The Governor is to research the case of a crusading churchman jailed more than 100 years ago in an “historic injustice”. John Rankin was asked to pardon the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk by David Burt, the Premier. The African Methodist Episcopal Chur...

This parliamentary session is the second longest in history, the Premier has said. The Throne Speech laying out the Government’s legislative agenda was read last September and the House of Assembly has sat 37 times since. Mr Burt said the long sessio...

Controversy over images of MPs claimed to be sleeping on the job will be “dealt with” next week, the Speaker of the House of Assembly promised yesterday. Dennis Lister, whose job is to enforce the rules of the House, said: “It’s an in-House matter th...

One Bermuda Alliance leader Jeanne Atherden released this Cup Match message today: It is the time of year that everyone in Bermuda looks forward to with huge anticipation — East vs West, the renewal of old rivalries rooted in a 118-year-old traditio...