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Eight properties owned by the Bermuda Government are under consideration for sale to the public, the House of Assembly heard this morning. Details were given by Craig Cannonier, the Minister of Public Works, in response to parliamentary questions fro...

Recreational and charter boats will be forbidden from discharging any sewage overboard in the Great Sound, Little Sound, Harrington Sound and Castle Harbour. From next year, shore-side pump-out facilities are being introduced for all new marinas, inc...

A parent involvement committee is to be introduced for the next school year, MPs heard this morning. The committee will work with the Commissioner of Education to improve parental involvement, education minister Wayne Scott told the House of Assembl...

Rolfe Commissiong has suggested that the Employment Act needs to be amended so that employers are obliged to pay overtime rates to employees working in excess of 40 hours a week. During the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, he sai...

Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has defended his position in face of accusations that he did not adhere to financial instructions over the release of key information about the Bermuda Government’s airport plans. Shadow minister and chairman o...

Progressive Labour Party MP Diallo Rabain has accused the Bermuda Government of issuing “essentially illegal” work permits to motor mechanics, landscape gardeners, electricians and welders. Mr Rabain said he was “shocked” to learn from responses to p...

The Bermuda Government is investigating after a Public Works vehicle was photographed with a sticker supporting the Preserve Marriage campaign. The bumper sticker on one of the Government’s Toyota vehicles, urged people to “vote no twice” in oppositi...

David Burt, the acting Leader of the Opposition, said he was “shocked” by an editorial he read in The Royal Gazette about a perceived lack of public protest over gun crime, and called on the editor to make a retraction. Mr Burt described the editoria...

Some form of reprieve for pitbulls could be among the amendments now under consideration for Bermuda’s dog legislation. However, Cole Simons, the Minister of the Environment, has refused to commit to calls from the Opposition to halt the policy of eu...

The Bermuda Government’s bid to sell off the Harrington Sound Post Office goes before legislators to debate in today’s House of Assembly. The building and its property could sell for $700,000 according to its sale and purchase agreement. The discussi...