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A parent involvement committee is to be introduced for the next school year, MPs heard this morning. The committee will work with the Commissioner of Education to improve parental involvement, education minister Wayne Scott told the House of Assembl...

Rolfe Commissiong has suggested that the Employment Act needs to be amended so that employers are obliged to pay overtime rates to employees working in excess of 40 hours a week. During the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, he sai...

Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has defended his position in face of accusations that he did not adhere to financial instructions over the release of key information about the Bermuda Government’s airport plans. Shadow minister and chairman o...

Progressive Labour Party MP Diallo Rabain has accused the Bermuda Government of issuing “essentially illegal” work permits to motor mechanics, landscape gardeners, electricians and welders. Mr Rabain said he was “shocked” to learn from responses to p...

David Burt, the acting Leader of the Opposition, said he was “shocked” by an editorial he read in The Royal Gazette about a perceived lack of public protest over gun crime, and called on the editor to make a retraction. Mr Burt described the editoria...

Malicious hackers have made an unsuccessful attempt to break into the Bermuda Police Service’s computer network. According to Michael DeSilva, the Commissioner of Police, the system was “recently targeted in a ransomware attack” — referring to softwa...

The Bermuda Government’s bid to sell off the Harrington Sound Post Office goes before legislators to debate in today’s House of Assembly. The building and its property could sell for $700,000 according to its sale and purchase agreement. The discussi...

A Bill to provide more flexibility for the management and operation of Bermuda partnerships has been passed in the House of Assembly. The Partnerships and Companies Amendment Act 2016 also clarifies the legal impact of certain changes in the constit...

A Bill that could see “modest” taxes on the City of Hamilton’s sewerage system bring in $400,000 annually was passed in the House of Assembly yesterday. During the debate of the Hamilton Sewerage Amendment Act 2016, Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Ec...

Sessions House, the home of Bermuda’s Parliament, is due for renovations. The House of Assembly building will have its windows replaced, and its terracotta exterior restored, while the southeast entrance has been closed off for restoration works. Su...

Legislation establishing a new kind of liquor licence specifically for tourism events has been passed by the House of Assembly. The new Liquor Licence Amendment Act 2016 also increases the fees payable for other kinds of liquor licences with the exce...

The merging of the Department of Environment Protection and the Department of Conservation Services is expected to save the Bermuda Government $387,000 annually. Cole Simons, the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, told the House of As...