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About $3 million annually has been paid by the Bermuda Government for health insurance premiums covering the Bermuda Police Service in recent years. The figures were released today by Michael Dunkley, the Premier and Minister of National Security, in...

Richard Ambrosio, head of the Charities Commission, is also working directly for the Attorney-General’s chamber, giving legal and policy advice. Trevor Moniz told the House of Assembly that Mr Ambrosio had been taken on for a year, until September 1,...

The Island’s census schedule is to be set to the discretion of the Bermuda Government, with the caveat that one must be held at least every ten years. The Statistics Amendment Act 2015 received support from both sides at yesterday’s Senate, with Dial...

Opposition legislation aimed at providing the needy with food has been approved by the Senate. The Good Samaritan Food Donation Act won bipartisan support in the House of Assembly at the end of a four-hour debate in which the Government side started ...

Delinquent employers who shirk paying health insurance for their staff can now be named in public. The Health Insurance Amendment Act 2015 has been approved by the Senate with Opposition support, although the Progressive Labour Party’s Diallo Rabain ...

Sweeping reforms to the criminal justice system have been proposed, including shortening trials and new powers for the Department of Public Prosecutions to reopen old cases if “compelling new evidence” is brought before the court. This latter aspect ...

A motion of censure against Speaker of the House Randy Horton has been passed over for a third week. Mr Horton was accused by the Progressive Labour Party of misconduct by suppressing debate — dating back to a stormy session of Parliament in March th...

Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development, gave a ministerial statement on the new National Electricity Sector Policy that he presented to the House of Assembly this morning. Calling it a “key step” in changing how Bermuda sources and use...

A heartfelt address to Parliament by One Bermuda Alliance backbencher Leah Scott prompted comment this evening from the Progressive Labour Party. An occasionally emotional Ms Scott pleaded for collaboration and for Members of Parliament to “listen to...

A new schedule for a national census has been approved after what were initially strenuous objections from the Opposition. In a switch from the five-year schedule set in 2002, and last carried out for the 2010 census, the count is now left to the Pre...