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A resolution to cut salaries for MPs and senators will be tabled in the House of Assembly’s virtual sitting today. David Burt, the Premier, said on Wednesday that ministers had agreed to take a one-year 15 per cent cut. A one-year 12.5 per cent pay c...

Here in the Atlantic-Caribbean region, we would normally be waving to tourists, selling them different island concoctions, giving them directions to local landmarks or driving them around in our minibuses and taxis. Yet, here we are in May, with empt...

In the historic first occasion of the House of Assembly going virtual on April 17, David Burt grasped the nettle almost literally in proclaiming that he had turned over a new leaf. To quote precisely from the Hansard, the Premier said: “I am going to...

The Department of Youth and Sport has been hard at work to help the community during Covid-19, MPs heard today. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said in the House of Assembly that many staff have joined in to help d...

The Government is considering expanding Bermuda’s potential for farming and fishing, Walter Roban told the House of Assembly today. A study will be carried out on opportunities for “under produced but locally desired produce”, while the Government wi...

Legislation to allow people to withdraw up to $12,000 from their private pension plans was approved by the Senate yesterday. Vance Campbell, a government senator and the junior public works minister, said the legislation was intended to help people w...

A funny thing happened when the House of Assembly resumed this past Friday ... peace broke out. Well, not completely. There was still the usual political snipery. This is politics, after all. But the twin threats that Covid-19 poses to life and liber...

Wedding bells are to ring out again, but scuba diving will be banned under amendments to Covid-19 regulations. David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly on Friday that the amendments had been approved by Cabinet as he put the regulations be...

Shadow finance minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin revisited a bitter dispute in the House of Assembly, saying the official recording had vindicated her after being accused of maligning low earners during a March sitting. In a March 16 debate on the Pay...

People who have felt the pinch as a result of the Covid-19 shutdown can take up to $12,000 from their private pension funds after the legislation was fast-tracked in the House of Assembly yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said the Go...

MPs paid their respects yesterday to “trailblazing” Stanley Lowe, a former Speaker of the House of Assembly, who died last month aged 82. Many said the longest-serving MP in modern Bermudian history, known for his fairness as Speaker, had ordered the...

MPs will honour the late Speaker of the House Stanley Lowe today as the legislature sits in a virtual session. Members of Parliament and senators were expected to pay tribute to the former Speaker and veteran Parliamentarian, who was buried on Wednes...