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Public Accounts Committee member Jeff Sousa has criticised Zane DeSilva for failing to “acknowledge mistakes” with the Port Royal Golf Course. Mr Sousa expressed his disappointment that the Progressive Labour Party MP used his appearance at the PAC ...

Michael Dunkley has said he intends to announce a change to Cabinet before the resumption of Parliament next month. The Premier also told The Royal Gazette that the House of Assembly’s summer session would begin on May 20, a delay of one week. “Obvio...

Progressive Labour Party MP Zane DeSilva delivered a spirited defence of his links to the Port Royal Golf Course development at the latest meeting of the Public Accounts Committee. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we have got value for money,” Mr De...

Jason Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, has issued a full apology for comments he made on television about Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance. Mr Richards filed a lawsuit in June 2015 against Mr Hayward for defamatory r...

David Burt, the Shadow Minister of Finance, has admitted he knew in advance that Government members of the Public Accounts Committee could not attend its last meeting, as all had sent their apologies to him beforehand. Committee chairman Mr Burt told...

A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee has been set back so members can attend the funeral of Clarence James. Dr James, a celebrated surgeon and former Deputy Premier, died last weekend. The meeting had been scheduled to take place this afternoon...

A condolence book to the former Deputy Premier Clarence James is available for signing at the Cabinet Office. Dr James, who passed away at the weekend, was Bermuda’s first black finance minister and is being remembered as a trailblazer politician and...

A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday was called off after all four One Bermuda Alliance members failed to attend, leaving the committee without a quorum. Financial secretary Anthony Manders, who had been summoned to attend the m...

Bob Richards said a summons issued by Public Accounts Committee chairman David Burt to bring the financial secretary before the committee was not legally valid. Mr Burt, however, insisted that the summons was valid and Mr Richard’s claim was “idiotic...

Membership has been announced for a ten-person team looking into amendments to the Pathways to Status Bill, with insurance CEO William Madeiros appointed chairman. Hailed last night in a government statement as representing a good cross section of th...