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The salary bill for David Burt’s two-member personal staff comes in at $227,000. Mr Burt, the Premier, said a total of four people were employed under the Premier and Opposition Leader Personal Staffs Act 1983. The information was revealed in resp...

Michael Weeks has been appointed as the new Minister of Social Development and Sport. Mr Weeks, Government Whip since the Progressive Labour Party won the General Election in July 2017, assumes the role which was made vacant by the resignation of Zan...

The cost to split the role of Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service will be revealed when the process is complete, David Burt said yesterday. The Premier fielded questions on the decision to create two posts in the wake of an announc...

The new government’s travel expenses bill for its first three months in office is just over $27,000, according to data released on its new expenses website today. Ministers made eight overseas trips between August 16 and October 14 to the US, Europe ...

A Cabinet of full-time ministers is needed to deliver promises made by the Progressive Labour Party, the Premier has said. David Burt’s PLP team has 11 full-time ministers, compared to seven full-time and five part-time under the previous government ...

The Cabinet salary bill is now about $150,000 more than under the previous government, One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe told the Upper House yesterday. Corey Butterfield, who was hired as a consultant for the OBA following the party’s win in 2...

New MP Wayne Caines and new senator Kathy Simmons were handed frontline portfolios as the Progressive Labour Party swore in its Cabinet team yesterday. Mr Caines, one of the PLP’s big winners in Tuesday night’s General Election, gets the national sec...

The Cabinet Office will close tomorrow and reopen on Wednesday at 8.30am in the newly renovated Cabinet Building. The office was temporarily located at Innovations House on Reid Street while repairs were carried out on the Cabinet Building at 105 Fro...

The Buildings Section of the Department of Public Lands and Buildings were recently recognised for their work restoring the Cabinet Building. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Works said that construction work on the building are complete, and...

Nandi Outerbridge has landed her first Cabinet position, with Cole Simons replacing Wayne Scott as Minister of Education. In a Cabinet reshuffle announced yesterday afternoon, Ms Outerbridge was sworn in as Minister of Social Development and Sport, t...

Cabinet is looking at a range of options put forward by a government steering committee to establish a secure forensic psychiatric unit in Bermuda. Senator Jeff Baron revealed that the committee had been tasked with devising a business case for both ...

The Cabinet will meet at the State House in St George’s today as renovations to the Cabinet Office continue. In previous weeks, the group has met at the Ministry of Finance, Camden and the Commissioner’s House in Dockyard. A Cabinet spokeswoman said ...