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Plans to court immigrants who could bring investment into Bermuda got a lukewarm assessment from economic experts yesterday. Nathan Kowalski, the chief financial officer of Anchor Investment Management, backed the Economic Investment Certificate prog...

The Government has used controversial cannabis legislation as part of a breakaway move from the UK, a shadow minister claimed yesterday. Michael Dunkley, the shadow minister of national security, said that drug reform had been used to pick a fight wi...

Non-Bermudians will be able to become long-term residents if they invest a minimum of $2.5 million in the country, the Labour Minister announced yesterday. Jason Hayward unveiled the new economic investment certificate policy yesterday which will com...

More than half of the House of Assembly’s 36 MPs contributed to yesterday’s debate on the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and legal affairs minister, started the debate and claimed that the Act was a push bac...

The Premier said last night Bermuda’s relationship with the UK would suffer serious damage if a law to license cannabis production failed to get Royal Assent. David Burt said there were indications that the Governor would be unable to give assent to...

“Vaccine hesitancy” is being switched for “vaccine acceptance”, the House of Assembly was told yesterday. Measures against the coronavirus pandemic came up for discussion as MPs approved an emergency restrictions, which would have expired next Wednes...

An overseas staff member for the Bermuda Tourism Authority in New York has died aged 65. David Burt, the Premier, offered condolences to the family of Joanne Raynor in the House of Assembly yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works ...

Maximum prices will be set for commonly used drugs under new legislation tabled in the House of Assembly this morning. Tabling amendments to the Bermuda Health Council Amendment Act, health minister Kim Wilson said it heralded “important and overdue ...

The Government will be “held to account for its most recent activities” in the battle against the coronavirus as emergency health regulations go before MPs to be extended today in the House of Assembly. A string of Covid-19 regulations are scheduled ...

Government backbenchers will be allowed a conscience vote on introducing the island’s first legal cannabis regime. And the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance signalled ahead of the debate in the House of Assembly that it is opposed to sweeping legislati...

A Parliamentary watchdog held its first meeting of the year on Tuesday. The Parliamentary Standing Committee met days before the House of Assembly is scheduled to return next Friday after its Christmas break. Newly-appointed members of the PAC held t...

Politics can be very much a matter of broad strokes, with opinions and preferences formed by impressions, relationships and histories — both family and personal. It is a factor that should be never overlooked or discounted as being of no little or no...