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One Bermuda Alliance leader Cole Simons has admitted his party made mistakes in power as he accused the Government of being obsessed with the political blame game. Mr Simons hit back at David Burt, the Premier, after he launched a string of attacks o...

The Governor and the Premier appear to be on a collision course over a plan for the liberalisation of cannabis laws. Rena Lalgie, the Governor, has made it clear legalisation of cannabis for purposes other than medicinal and scientific use, or some i...

The Government had “no intention” of tailoring its proposal to licence cannabis production to fit with the UK’s conventions that allows use of the drug for medicinal purposes only. David Burt, the Premier, underlined that legislation of cannabis in B...

A murdered British MP has been honoured by the Premier at a wreath-laying ceremony at Westminster. David Burt, in London for a UK Overseas Territories summit, was joined at the remembrance event for Sir David Amess by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker o...

David Burt has defended the pace of constitutional reform after the same promises on changes in the relationship with the UK were made in two successive Throne Speeches. The Premier insisted that it was wrong to say very little had been done on the ...

A meeting of Overseas Territories leaders in London today was headed by the Premier. David Burt said topics from climate change to the impact of the pandemic on Overseas Territories’ economies were up for discussion at the annual Joint Ministerial Co...

A memorial tree in commemoration of the island’s 106 victims of Covid-19 has been planted. The Bermuda cedar was placed in the Botanical Gardens in Paget by David Burt, the Premier and Kim Wilson, the health minister. Mr Burt said more Bermudians had...

The owners of the Fairmont Southampton will not have the redevelopment of the resort underwritten by the Government, the finance minister has said. Curtis Dickinson emphasised that no government could be expected to take on the risks of private devel...

The Premier said yesterday that the public would be informed if there was an update on a Cabinet minister who has been absent from his post for weeks. David Burt said the responsibilities of Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, ...

The Premier today denied claims that a lack of major new programmes in the Throne Speech meant the Government was running out of imagination and energy. David Burt was speaking after the One Bermuda Alliance attacked the legislative programme as bein...

With the Throne Speech scheduled for tomorrow, we look back at what happened to the pledges made in last year’s legislative blueprint - which was shorter than usual because of the Covid-19 emergency. Of 22 key pledges made last year, nearly half, 10,...

As the clever old saw goes: if you want to kill an idea, even a good one, send it to a committee for study and recommendation. The tactic came to mind when the question surfaced very recently at one of those televised Covid press conferences as to wh...