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The Transport Control Department has resolved an issue with four types of motorcycle already on Bermuda’s roads. According to a statement, the various models — around 100 of which are on the road locally — were believed to be too powerful according t...

The Bermuda Government incurred a $65.9 million deficit in its budget for the first three months of the financial year. Financial figures released by the Cabinet Office show the Government is slightly astray of its projected full-year targets for rev...

The Government’s disputed airport redevelopment contract is to be investigated by a Commission of Inquiry along with contentious projects of the past — such as Bermuda Emissions Control and GlobalHue. That independent body, which held its first publi...

The first public hearing will take place today of the Commission of Inquiry into concerns raised by the Auditor-General over the handling of taxpayers’ money in 2010, 2011 and 2012. It will be held at St Theresa’s Church Hall, Laffan Street, Hamilton...

The Ministry of Tourism, Transport and Municipalities will this week temporarily move its offices to Victoria Street, opening up space at the Transport Control Department. According to a statement, the ministry will open for business at 61-63 Victori...

Measures to rein in costly medical diagnostic tests will include the prohibition of “financially vested self-referrals”, according to the Ministry of Health. The idea of regulation arose in late 2013 to a backdrop of rising health spending, with a co...

The Commission of Inquiry has issued a procedural statement, outlining its process for investigating the Auditor-General’s report. The statement, which follows meetings with CoI chairman Sir Anthony Evans during his visit to Bermuda last week, includ...

The annual accounts of the Bermuda Government’s consolidated fund have been given an unqualified audit opinion for the third successive year. The announcement was made yesterday by Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, as he formally put the financi...

Heather Jacobs Matthews will finish as Auditor-General tomorrow, Government House has announced. Heather Thomas, the former Director Internal Audit, will take up her duties on Monday, June 6, with Claude Nantel acting in the role between from this Th...

Dear Sir, Sam Strangeways is to be congratulated on her story in The Royal Gazette of May 5, asking plaintively “where is the missing $807,000?” That article, the recent Auditor-General Report and daily experiences of taxpayers tends to indicate that...

The Bermuda Government is still pursuing the trustees of failed sports facility Sandys 360 for hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ cash paid out by mistake. A public access to information request by The Royal Gazette to the Ministry of Fin...

A website and Facebook page have been launched to keep the public informed about the process and progress of Commission of Inquiry into the Auditor-General’s report. The commission’s website includes the following information and documents: • an outl...