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Access to medication for chronic illnesses is a vital component of quality healthcare, according to the Bermuda Health Council. While less expensive drugs would not end the suffering, they would make a difference and enable an environment where adhe...

Absentee ballots allowing students to vote have been proposed for the new legislative year. The Throne Speech promise makes good on a pre-election pledge of the One Bermuda Alliance, but the issue goes back more than 15 years. The argument for absent...

The protection of children, seniors and the sick were all prominent features of a Throne Speech that promised to look after Bermuda’s most vulnerable people yesterday. Penalties for predatory sexual crimes against children will be toughened up, legis...

Drug addicts and alcoholics will receive “efficient and cost-effective” care over the coming 12 months, the Bermuda Government promised in its Throne Speech yesterday. However, the pledge was met with a mixed response from the heads of several Bermud...

What was left out of the Throne Speech could be “more deafening than what got in” according to equal rights campaigner Tony Brannon. He was referring to the lack of discussion on same-sex marriage during yesterday’s speech read by Governor George Fe...

Business partnership laws are to be revamped to make sure Bermuda stays competitive. The Throne Speech explained that the changes would maintain the Island’s position as an offshore business leader. The speech, delivered by Governor George Fergusson ...

Age Concern has called on the Bermuda Government to show that it is in touch with the Island’s social issues as it prepares to deliver its fourth Throne Speech tomorrow. Claudette Fleming, the charity’s director, said that the “tone, intent and relev...

The Bermuda Progressive Labour Party will be hosting an Open Mic Night this Thursday. The event was described by the Opposition party as an “opportunity for the public to ask questions, provide feedback and share ideas with the PLP MPs and senators ...

Parliamentary questions remain in effect, Speaker of the House Randy Horton told The Royal Gazette after an announcement they had been suspended. The questions, which allow Opposition Members of Parliament to scrutinise the workings of government, ar...

On this date in 1978, the British Government intended to push Bermuda towards independence, according to recently declassified documents. A cable sent from the London Embassy to the US Secretary of State and US Consulate, dated October 30, 1978, deta...