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The Department of Parks has extended the deadline for applications to provide beach and park concessions for the summer. The deadline for requests for proposals has been put back a week to Monday. Concessions will operate from May 1 to November 30. T...

More than $4m has been spent on the first of a fleet of electric buses, a public access to information announcement has revealed. Costs associated with the 30 electric buses, parts and shipping amounted to $4.09m. The notice in the Official Gazette a...

A new pilot boat has been ordered to boost the ageing Marine and Ports fleet, the Government has revealed. A government spokeswoman said the Gladding-Hearn shipyard in Massachusetts, had won a contract to build a new Chesapeake-class pilot boat to re...

Secrecy surrounds the closure of a government concession at a public golf course that has now lasted several weeks. Members say that the closure came abruptly nearly a month ago when a large police contingent descended upon the licensed premises in D...

A bid to get details of a controversial link-up between the Bermuda Post Office and a US private courier company has been stonewalled by the Government. The refusal came after Mailboxes Unlimited, a Bermuda courier company, challenged the deal, set u...

The Government is facing a legal challenge after awarding a contract to a foreign shipping company – without first putting the contract out to tender locally. Lawyers for island-based importer Mailboxes Unlimited have written to Wayne Furbert, the Mi...

Family mediators were asked to bid for Government work to help resolve disputes over parental access to children. An invitation to tender was published to cover the “legally mandated function”. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Development and...

A project developer to draw up a plan for the shake-up of the island’s school system is being looked for by the Government. A Request For Proposal was published last week that asked consultancy firms to submit “a strategic programme and project devel...

A plant to turn salt water into fresh water in the East End is planned by the Bermuda Land Development Company. The BLDC has advertised for a contractor to install and run a new reverse osmosis plant in St David’s. A notice from the quango said: “The...

Government has confirmed that it is acting as guarantor for a controversial loan to fund an energy-saving project at the National Sports Centre. In the House of Assembly on Friday, Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, confirmed that Government had...

Opposition MP Craig Cannonier is calling on Government to provide details of the controversial $3.2 million contract to install solar panels at the National Sports Centre. The contract was finally awarded to contractor Atlantic Energy Solutions Group...

The Opposition is calling for an investigation into the funding of a controversial energy project at the National Sports Centre. At a press conference yesterday Craig Cannonier, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for public works, also called for an ...