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The courts made the right decision yesterday when it ruled against the Government in a row over all-terrain vehicle tours in sensitive areas, the head of the environmental charity that brought the case said last night. Kim Smith, the executive direct...

Bermuda will fight a recommendation to the House of Commons that British residents on the island should get to vote, the Premier vowed yesterday. David Burt said the proposal was a “tone-deaf” idea that ignored the history of voting rights in Bermuda...

The Progressive Labour Party faced discord among its own supporters over fears that Bermudian families are being left out in the cold, political sources claimed. David Burt, the Premier, and Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, were thought to ...

A Bill designed to address gaps in the Mental Health Act of 1968 was passed on Friday. The Bill for the Mental Health Amendment Act 2018 was approved after MPs from both sides said they welcomed proposed changes to improve care for mental health pati...

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...