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A lack of preparation and a failure to connect with voters led to the One Bermuda Alliance’s overwhelming defeat at the last General Election, the party’s leader admitted yesterday. But Cole Simons, who took the reins about a month after the October ...

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly has launched an attack on the last Governor and police service and compared them to a lynch mob. Derrick Burgess said reports that Ewart Brown, a former Progressive Labour Party premier, was to face corrup...

The Bermuda Trade Union Congress has backed trades union opposition to legislation designed to give non-members a vote to end representation. Dwight Jackson, the BTUC general secretary, said the BTUC wished to “echo the sentiments” of Chris Furbert, ...

New laws to outlaw drink driving on the water have been approved by the House of Assembly. The new requirements for private boats also included stricter blood alcohol limits for the operators of recreational vessels. Lawrence Scott, the transport min...

The Government has halved the cost of running the Legal Aid Office after introducing cost-cutting measures, the legal affairs minister has revealed. Kathy Lynn Simmons, also the Attorney General, said the service had reduced its costs from $2.66 mill...

Legislation to lay the framework for legal cannabis in Bermuda was yesterday tabled in the House of Assembly Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and the Minister of Legal Affairs said the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 would open the door for the l...

A controversial change to labour relations law to allow non-union members a vote on whether a workplace should retain union representation was approved by MPs last night. The change means all workers in a bargaining unit, including non-union staff, w...

The first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines is not expected to arrive in Bermuda until early next month, the health minister said yesterday. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly that Bermuda was expected to receive more than 9,000 doses of the Pfizer C...

A range of renewable energy sources are being considered for the island’s waters as the Government plans to move forward with its blue economy strategy. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said in the House of Assembly today that offshore win...

The House of Assembly has marked the death of a Bermudian living in the United States who died after he was shot by police in Georgia. David Burt, the Premier, led tributes to “a Bermudian, a veteran of the US armed forces and, most importantly, a fa...

The One Bermuda Alliance has cried foul over a lack of transparency on the Government’s plans for a vertical farm. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, announced plans last month for the hi-tech agriculture to produce leafy greens for the isl...

Healthcare amendments on the payment of insurance premiums, as well as insurance coverage for tele-health, were discussed by MPs last Friday. The Health Insurance (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2020 allowed for a temporary extension of the deadline fo...