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The Information Commissioner has renewed her call for residents to be able to make Public Access To Information requests anonymously. Gitanjali Gutierrez made the recommendation following a survey which suggested just one third of people who submit ...

No record was kept of how many schooldays children in the public education system have missed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Department of Education admitted that it did not hold the statistics after a pub...

A recommendation was made for the Ministry of Finance headquarters to “seek training and support” to help maintain residents’ rights to ask for access to records. Gitanjali Gutierrez, the Information Commissioner, included the suggestion in a decisio...

Two police officers suspended from duty over allegations of misconduct have been reinstated. Pc Robert Butterfield and Sergeant Mark Monk have been off work on full pay and facing disciplinary action since 2020. But a Bermuda Police Service spokesman...

A string of questions about when competitive tenders will be put out for three Covid-19 technology contracts have been stonewalled by the Government. The contracts — for software to manage the effects of the pandemic — were earlier awarded without a ...

Government House has refused to release the findings of an inquiry into claims of gross misconduct against former police commissioner Stephen Corbishley. Deputy Governor Alison Crocket told The Royal Gazette yesterday that disclosure of the report “w...

A company owned by the Premier’s fintech adviser has earned $3.6 million after it was awarded no competition government contracts as part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Technology firm resPartner, founded and co-owned by Denis Pitcher, wil...

Bermuda’s Information Commissioner has marked a milestone of 100 decisions since the island’s Public Access to Information legislation came into force in 2015. Gitanjali Gutierrez said she hit the century on January 28 after she released decisions on...

The Information Commissioner has ordered a public authority to make “further disclosures” about a sports betting firm which scrapped plans to hire staff in Bermuda after media interest in its activities

Bermuda’s first court ruling on the powers of the Information Commissioner underlined the limits of the island’s Public Access to Information Act, the Attorney-General’s office has said. The Attorney-General’s office spoke out after a judgment on Tue...

The Information Commissioner does not have the right to examine all records held by public authorities, a judge has declared. Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams issued her ruling – the first in Bermuda to consider the extent of the Information Commis...

The House of Assembly got guidance from the UK on how to handle a harassment complaint against former MP Rolfe Commissiong because it had no "codes or standards“ of its own, The Royal Gazette can reveal. But the advice given and other records held by...