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The Bermuda Government’s hiring freeze is hurting the postal service, according to the Bermuda Industrial Union. Chris Furbert, the president of the BIU, said the service had lost 25 per cent of its staff in the past four years. There were 84 members...

Dear Sir, I wish to add comment to the public discussion arising from the recent release of the Auditor-General’s report on the Government’s financial years ending March 2010, March 2011 and March 2012, and on the Premier’s decision to launch a Commi...

A section of Kindley Field Park is being set aside as a storage area for a Bailey bridge being constructed for the swing bridge across Ferry Reach. About 750ft of the park, next to the swing bridge, will be used for this purpose for about six weeks, ...

Animal advocacy group Punish the Deed has renewed its call for a dog amnesty after helping to arrange for the export of two seized dogs from Bermuda. Both pets, which would have faced euthanasia had they remained on the Island, were flown to a tempor...

Minister of Education Wayne Scott has received the final report of the SCORE Advisory Committee on school reorganisation. The report was commissioned to examine school consolidation or closure, improve the quality and consistency of primary school pr...

Not one death on Bermuda’s roads is acceptable. And after a weekend when the country has buried one young man, while two fortunate others are recuperating in hospital, our leaders must continue to grapple with ways by which we can reach farther into ...

The Corporation of Hamilton could reach an agreement with a lending institution “within days” to satisfy its $18 million debt over the Par-la-Ville hotel debacle, according to Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs. Senator Fahy said that the cit...

Remediation at the Morgan’s Point property has been completed, with the site now cleared for the proposed luxury resort development. Craig Christensen, president and CEO of Morgan’s Point Ltd, expressed his gratitude to the Ministry of Public Works f...

Dear Sir, The heart-warming message on the front page of my Royal Gazette by Jason Hayward, representing the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, is a welcome and a desperately needed olive branch to heal some of the hurdles that face the ...

In the second and final part of our question-and-answer session on the Island’s economy, Bermuda College lecturer Craig Simmons shares his hopes for 2016 •QUESTION: To what extent do we have reason to be optimistic or pessimistic for the year ahead?...

White collar union leader Jason Hayward last night held out a 2016 olive branch to Government — and pledged to work with Ministers to reduce the cost of public administration. Mr Hayward, president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said that 2015...

The birthrate reached a new low in 2014 while Government expenditure exceeded revenue by a record $300 million in fiscal year 2014/15, according to the latest Bermuda Digest of Statistics. The publication revealed that a total of 574 “live births” we...