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The Premier today released details of costs for Government and Opposition personal staff for the last financial year. The top earner was Owen Darrell, David Burt’s Chief of Staff, on $127,619 a year in 2019-20. Mr Burt’s other expenses included a hou...

The Premier will today update MPs on technological advances to tackle Covid-19 at a virtual sitting of the House of Assembly. David Burt’s statement will be reinforced by details on new regulations to protect the island from the coronavirus pandemic ...

If Kathy Lynn Simmons has her way, the image of civil servants as paper-pushing bureaucrats will be a thing of the past by 2023. The Attorney General said that the Government aimed to be a paperless organisation in three years’ time, with all forms ...

A new limited duration test licence for digital asset businesses is expected to be introduced after legislation was passed in the House of Assembly last Friday. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said that research carried out by the Bermuda ...

A Bill to give a 262-year lease to the developers and managers of the former St George’s Club property is expected to be among the matters up for debate when the House of Assembly reconvenes today. The St George’s Club Act 2020, which, if passed, wil...

“It’s 400 years (400 years, 400 years) And it's the same old-time colonial, imperialistic philosophy I said it’s 400 years (400 years, 400 years) And my people, they still don’t see” — Peter Tosh On November 6, the ...

Throne Speech. The Reply. Point. Counterpoint. Now we all understand the politics of debate in the House of Assembly. Only too well. Meanwhile, outside the legislature partisans pile on with pointed comments. There’s a wonderful Arabic proverb that s...

Opposition MP Michael Dunkley said at the weekend that the Throne Speech was the one of the weakest he had heard in his time in Parliament. Mr Dunkley, a former premier, added he was “surprised and disappointed that Covid was not more of a feature” o...

Covid-19 emergency regulations are to be extended into January next year. MPs approved the order after Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the coronavirus continued to pose “a severe threat to public health”. She added that emergency conditions imp...

Laws designed to allow members of mixed-status families to apply for Bermudian status are just the beginning of changes to immigration legislation, the labour minister told the House of Assembly. Jason Hayward said the “repatriation and mixed-status ...

Bermuda faces “unprecedented” problems in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Leader of the Opposition warned today. Cole Simons said: “Honestly, the next few years will be the toughest Bermuda has faced and the people are worried.“ Mr Simons said...

Workforce training programmes to help the unemployed return to the job market will be available as early as next week, the Minister of Labour announced today. Jason Hayward told the House of Assembly that the programmes would offer training for secto...