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Controversial changes to healthcare financing were passed in the Senate yesterday after two government senators who had excused themselves because of illness returned for the vote. The Health Insurance Amendment Act was resisted by the three One Berm...

The Government will promote “a system of greater fairness and equity” through its new Cabinet Committee on Social Development, the Premier announced Friday. David Burt gave the House of Assembly details on the group, which has been tasked with a focu...

The Premier said he wanted to end controversy over the appointment of consultants and advisers to ministers as he tabled legal amendments in the House of Assembly Friday. David Burt said the Government will be required to publish all appointments and...

Wayne Caines, the national security minister, has given the public extra time to comment on work-permit policy. Mr Caines told the House of Assembly Friday that policies would be changed to seek “the right balance between the legitimate expectations ...

It will very soon be my first anniversary as an elected MP. People often ask me how I am finding it up on the Hill. My first year as the newest Member of the House has certainly been interesting, sometimes frustrating, and, occasionally, profound. Th...

A controversial Bill to change how Bermuda’s hospital is funded was passed last night. The Government is to pay an annual grant to the Bermuda Hospitals Board, capped at $330 million for the coming year, to replace the existing fee-for-service arran...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly admitted last night that he was perhaps wrong to allow comments from a Progressive Labour Party backbencher, who claimed that Bermuda’s longest-serving premier “tap-danced” for the “most reactionary and racist ele...

The introduction of speed cameras and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels were among the recommendations in a Green Paper on Transportation tabled yesterday in the House of Assembly. Zane DeSilva, the transport minister, said other suggestions inc...

David Burt, the Premier, is to announce the formation of a Cabinet Committee on Social Issues today in the House of Assembly. The group, which first met in February, has been tasked with looking at issues ranging from the living wage, extending paid ...

Annual reports for the Bermuda Hospitals Board, which have lagged at the Auditor-General’s office, will “soon be completely up to date”, the health minister pledged. Kim Wilson tabled the BHB’s annual report for 2013-14 in the House of Assembly on F...

The Bermuda Government still has a contract with local tech firm Trunomi to develop the Perseid electronic identification project, which uses blockchain technology. David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly during Premier’s Question Time on...

Bermuda’s public bus system experienced a “learning curve” over its problems getting a new schedule up and running, the transport minister said. Zane DeSilva told MPs in the House on Friday that the decision to revert to the old bus schedule “was no...