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MPs engaged in sometimes terse goodbyes on Friday night as the House of Assembly closed for the summer. Sly digs, open accusations and litigation threats flew during the Motion to Adjourn, before agitated Speaker of the House Randy Horton brought mat...

A Bill to protect the personal information of Bermuda residents has been passed in the House of Assembly. The Personal Information Protection Act 2016 “captures the very latest privacy rights and principles found across the world” and “marks a pivot...

A culture of secrecy obscures the island’s reporting of suicide figures, Parliament heard, as the latest statistics for births, marriages and deaths were tabled. The 2015 report from the Registrar General listed 583 births, up 9 per cent from 2014; t...

It is likely to be a year before the Human Rights Amendment Act, turned down by the Senate, can be brought back to Parliament by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert said he had sought three legal opinions after Thursday’s narrow 6-5 defeat in the...

Parliamentarians and senators have paid tribute to Johnny Barnes, who died in the early hours of last Saturday at the age of 93. In the House of Assembly yesterday, several MPs rose to express their condolences to Mr Barnes’s family as well as share ...

Taxi drivers are refusing to work this weekend after transport minister Senator Michael Fahy declined to take his controversial minicar Bill off the table. The move could have a serious impact on thousands of tourists, as the cruise ship Anthem of th...

Attorney-General Trevor Moniz has presented to Parliament a draft consultation copy of the Bribery Act 2016, which details plans to modernise Bermuda’s laws on corruption and bribery. Mr Moniz, the Minister of Legal Affairs, noted that through the Of...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority’s public relations officers generated editorial content worth more than $26 million in advertising during 2015. The BTA said yesterday that much of that content came from 108 journalists who visited the island last year ...

The public got a reminder in the House of Assembly that the Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating government contracts opted to include the contentious airport development deal. Walter Roban, the Shadow Minister of Home Affairs, noted that ...

A Bill reforming the process by which adopted children can obtain Bermudian status has been passed in the House of Assembly. The Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment (Adoption) Act 2016 specifies that adopted children with at least one Bermu...

New legislation paving the way for a modern and transparent disciplinary system for the island’s police service has been approved by MPs. The Police Amendment Act 2016 was debated in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, when it received bipartisan sup...

Independent MP Shawn Crockwell criticised the One Bermuda Alliance for not sending any Cabinet representatives to the funeral of his cousin Fiqre Crockwell who was fatally shot last month. Speaking in the House of Assembly on Friday evening, Mr Croc...