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Buses are not expected to run this morning as a labour withdrawal over immigration legislation continues. The Ministry of Tourism Development and Transport yesterday afternoon announced that the bus service would be cancelled at least during the morn...

Junior home affairs minister Sylvan Richards detailed the 2016-17 Budget for the Department of Workforce Development, but left no time for debate. While 2½ hours were scheduled for the debate, Mr Richards used the entirety of the time allotted to del...

Tensions spiked in a day of largely peaceful protests when protesters, some of them angrily demanding to see the Premier, poured into the Cabinet Office and had to be removed by police. Officers responded swiftly when demonstrators followed Michael D...

It’s time to step back from the threatening brinkmanship which has been masquerading as political discourse in Bermuda in recent weeks. It’s time to dispense with the overheated rhetoric and sometimes ludicrously overblown claims and counterclaims s...

Bermuda was braced for industrial activity this morning, with Michael Dunkley describing the People’s Campaign’s call for an island-wide work stoppage as “irresponsible and misconceived”. At 11pm last night, the Bermuda Government warned of likely di...

Parliament protester Enda Matthie, who is on a “hunger strike” outside Sessions House to draw legislators’ attention to the plight of ordinary Bermudians, was joined overnight and yesterday by supporters. Ms Matthie, who told The Royal Gazette she h...

A recalled statement by the People’s Campaign urged the public to join an “island-wide withdrawal of labour” tomorrow to protest against immigration reforms. At 1.59pm yesterday, the pressure group sent the media the press release, announced “in soli...

The Ministry of Public Works is set to increase its revenue this year by selling government-owned buildings, according to minister Craig Cannonier. During the budget debate yesterday, Mr Cannonier noted that a 30 per cent increase in revenue is expec...

Breeders and abusers of illegal dogs seem immune to successful prosecution or meaningful penalty, according to a local animal advocacy group. A spokeswoman for Punish the Deed not the Breed said focus instead appears to have been placed on seizing do...

A petition in support of the Bermuda Government’s Pathways to Status plan had gathered almost 2,900 signatures by late yesterday — and its creator said she was “not afraid” to keep campaigning to get the legislation passed. Jen Harvey told The Royal ...

Recommendations from the Sage commission have not fallen by the wayside, according to Michael Dunkley. In a statement this afternoon, the premier said that the results of the report were being used to drive the public service reform initiative, inten...

Janie Brown has lived in Bermuda for 23 years, employs a predominantly Bermudian workforce in her dental practice and has two Bermudian children. And yet, without status, the US native can still be made to feel like a “second-class citizen” in her ad...