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The Opposition’s Reply to the Budget is scheduled to dominate today’s sitting of the House of Assembly. Cole Simons, the Opposition leader and shadow finance minister, will respond to the 2021-22 Budget delivered last Friday by Curtis Dickinson, the ...

The House of Assembly on February 19 passed the Progressive Labour Party’s new Cannabis Licensing Bill, which now heads to Senate for debate tomorrow. Let me offer a few thoughts… The reason for the One Bermuda Alliance’s opposition to the Bill is t...

The Premier has hired no additional personal staff since last October’s General Election , the House of Assembly has been told. David Burt last month listed four ministerial advisers taken on since March 8, 2019. He said Trina Bean was hired as an ad...

The notion expressed by Michael Dunkley, the Shadow Minister of National Security, that the Cannabis Licensing Act that passed in the House of Assembly on February 19, 2021, was a result of devious planning by the Government to use as a pro-independe...

A 10 per cent public sector pay cut last year will not be extended in the 2021-22 Budget, the Premier revealed last night. David Burt wrote on twitter: “We are most proud to recognise the sacrifice of public sector workers by presenting a budget that...

A campaign group for the elderly has welcomed a move to increase the age for mandatory driving retests. But Claudette Fleming, the executive director of Age Concern questioned if the legislation for driver’s licences should still be framed around “ol...

A controversial bid to legalise cannabis cultivation could damage public health and put a strain on healthcare services, an Opposition MP has claimed. Michael Dunkley, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman on health, said the Act would inevitably lead t...

One of the best descriptions that I ever came across on the challenge of writing a column came from Pulitzer prize winning columnist Russell Baker of New York Times fame : it is like having to perform ballet in a telephone booth, he wrote.. The tende...

Reaction to the Government’s release of details of the Economic Investment Certificate policy has run the gamut. Supporters of status for long term residents are disappointed that the policy does not go further. There has been criticism that the poli...

A government MP has hit out at the Governor over an antiracism message that he believes is inconsistent with historical practices at Government House. Derrick Burgess, the veteran Progressive Labour Party MP, spoke in the House of Assembly after Rena...

Older drivers will have the period before they have to pass extra tests to retain their licences extended if legislation tabled in the House of Assembly is approved. The Motor Car (Driver’s Licence Renewal) Amendment Act 2021 will raise the age a...