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After more than a decade of waiting, landmark legislation allowing unprecedented public scrutiny of the Government’s affairs has today become law. Public Access to Information, or PATI, has the power to profoundly alter the way the Island conducts it...

Governor George Fergusson and his wife took part in the longstanding annual tradition of picking Easter lilies for the Queen this week. The flowers, grown by Manuel DeSilva and flown on Tuesday’s British Airways flight to London, arrived at Windsor C...

Today Bermuda joins the ranks of jurisdictions around the world where freedom of information legislation holds sway. The Public Access to Information Act (PATI) will not open all doors: sensitive personal information or details threatening national s...

With today’s advent of Public Access to Information laws, a wish list of unexplored topics are liable for scrutiny by the media and concerned members of the public. • The selection of the Canadian Commercial Corporation to lead the redevelopment of ...

When The Royal Gazette launched its “Right to Know” campaign for the enactment of public access to information laws, senior reporter Sam Strangeways led the charge. Ms Strangeways had a busy year covering the 2008 campaign for PATI and the political ...

The drive to get freedom of information laws in place was the most prominent campaign by The Royal Gazette in recent years — and it came during a low point in the newspaper’s relationship with Government. “The Right to Know: Giving People Power” camp...

It was reported in today’s Royal Gazette, and online, that the Public Access To Information Act 2010 (PATI) was not a high priority for the administration that was in government under the watch of Dr Ewart Brown as Premier. However, we accept that t...

Premier Michael Dunkley has claimed that Shadow Immigration Minister Walton Brown approved legislation which sparked a march on the Senate. However Mr Brown has responded that the Premier’s comments were “not accurate” and that he would adjust the ex...

In light of my constitutional duty as Premier to uphold the “good management of the public affairs of Bermuda”, I feel it necessary to comment on the events of last Wednesday when an unruly crowd disrupted Senate business. People will recall that cro...

Hundreds of protesters interrupted last night’s sitting of the Senate to demand a “bipartisan, collaborative dialogue” on immigration reform. Police ordered the public to leave the Cabinet Building after Senate president Carol Ann Bassett brought pro...

A group of Bermudian women moved one step closer to achieving financial independence when they graduated from the Department of Human Affairs’ Community Driven Development programme yesterday. Seventeen of the 20 participants enrolled in the programm...

It was both a light-hearted and solemn occasion this afternoon as the official portrait of former Premier Dr Ewart Brown was formally unveiled in the Senate chamber. “There is little that will ever prepare one for what comes once you sit behind that ...