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The Minister of Education will be able to hand pick the deputy chairman of the Board of Education if a proposed law is approved by the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain tabled the Education Amendment (No. 2) Act 2021 in the House of Assembly yesterday...

A claim that the Ministry of Finance owed a sanitation firm more than $900,000 for clean-up work at Morgan’s Point has been thrown out by a judge. Hunt’s Sanitation Services, run by Nelson Hunt, claimed it was owned $908,766 for remediation and clean...

Repairs to the public access to a beach started yesterday as part of the Government’s bid to boost the economy. The Ministry of Public Works announced earlier this month that Smith Hauling & Excavating had been awarded a contract to repair hurricane ...

Budget cuts mean that the public works ministry will not be able to do as much routine maintenance as it used to, it was admitted yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said that the ministry budget had been cut by $3.75 million because of the eco...

A total of 62.5 vacant posts have been defunded by the public works ministry, the public works minister revealed today. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the cost-cutting measure came after the ministry’s allocation was cut by almost $4 million to ...

The social development and seniors minister heard talks about inclusion after she was invited by a UN agency to attend a virtual meeting. Tinee Furbert attended the online gathering of the presiding officers of the Regional Conference on Social Devel...

Former MP Rolfe Commissiong today branded the release of his resignation letter by David Burt, the Premier, as “unethical” and insisted he did not write it and only signed it under “extreme duress”. Mr Commissiong, who was unveiled as the Governmen...

Kathy Lynn Simmons has been appointed as the Acting Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, the Government announced this evening. Ms Simmons already holds the post of Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs. A government spokeswoman added: “...

News Staff Videos created to publicise the public’s right to know have been released by the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Acting Information Commissioner revealed today. Answer Styannes said the “I Want to Know!” series was designed to encou...

The public was today warned to ignore social media messages from people who impersonated Government ministers. A Government spokesman said: “One of the latest examples is a fake social media profile – bearing the likeness of Deputy Premier and Minist...

Dancing without a mask on at a dinner in a restaurant was a “mistake”, the former tourism minister admitted today. Zane DeSilva said he had to “pay the price” for his actions and apologised to David Burt, the Premier, as well as residents. He told th...

Senators approved amendments aimed at giving the Government more flexibility to fight future pandemics. The Public Health Amendment Act 2020 gives the Minister of Health the power to create regulations in response to dangerous communicable diseases w...