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Parliament’s debate on two pieces of legislation pertaining to the airport redevelopment project has been postponed by one week, according to Randy Horton, the Speaker of the House. MPs were due to return to the House of Assembly on Friday, taking up...

Bermuda needs a new airport. The need is most keenly felt by the people working there — mopping up rainwater from lounges and offices, jerry-rigging ageing systems so they do not fail, or accompanying disabled and elderly people in wind, rain and shi...

Opposition leader David Burt and the Public Accounts Committee have rejected an opportunity to view the Project Agreement for the airport redevelopment project, according to finance minister Bob Richards. In a statement yesterday, Mr Richards said th...

Seven Bermudians have been offered paid internships with the partners on the proposed airport redevelopment. They will work at Aecon with members of its technical team in Canada, after being chosen by a panel of interviewers from Aecon and the Depart...

People’s Campaign leader Jason Hayward said he “does not expect any different activity” to last month’s protest when the controversial airport deal is debated in the House of Assembly on February 3. Mr Hayward, who is president of the Bermuda Public ...

David Burt, the Leader of the Opposition, has questioned the lack of consultation with the Progressive Labour Party over selecting members of an independent panel to assess the Bermuda Government’s airport redevelopment project. Bob Richards, the Min...

Confidential documents not previously shared with Parliament will come under the scrutiny of a team reviewing the airport redevelopment project, finance minister Bob Richards has announced. At a press conference this afternoon, Mr Richards revealed r...

Dear Sir, I have noted with interest the controversies surrounding the airport redevelopment proposal and the extension of the Reverend Nicholas Tweed’s work permit. I wish to note that it should be evident to all that one of these decisions has a fa...

Senator Michael Fahy has claimed Opposition leader David Burt is attempting to “deceive the community” over the controversial airport redevelopment project. Mr Burt has called on the Bermuda Government to publicly release the “lease, master assignmen...

An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at LF Wade International Airport at about 11.45am today. The diverted flight was en route from San Juan in Puerto Rico to New York before heading to the island. Emergency landing protocols were pu...

Dear Sir, I read Clevelyn Crichlow’s letter with interest in this morning’s Royal Gazette (December 21). I agree with him in that there are instances where it is just to break the law once all other avenues have been exhausted. Those instances are li...

On December 2, members of our community converged upon the grounds outside the House of Assembly, in response to a call from the Leader of the Opposition, together with the People’s Campaign, Move Bermuda and the unions — which I will call the “Combi...