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MPs approved amendments removing the requirement of people to be retired in order to apply for pension refunds. The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment No 2 was passed with no objection. The amendments allow members and former ...

Bermuda’s first woman Minister of National Security said she was “humbled” by her appointment yesterday. Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North, highlighted that she had spoken in the House of Assembly less than two weeks a...

Many years ago — in fact, to be precise, it was 45 years and just shy of one month — I learnt that the idea of “judgment day”, as opposed to being a cataclysmic event, was actually always happening simultaneous to what we perceived as now. That livi...

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” — Unknown Bermuda, we are three years into the landslide Progressive Labour Party victory to run our governmen...

The Premier added tourism to his economic development responsibilities yesterday as MPs Renée Ming and Neville Tyrrell were sworn in as Cabinet ministers. Ms Ming has taken the role of national security minister and Mr Tyrrell is the new transport mi...

A luxury housing development up for debate by MPs today has been defended as a “win-win” for the island. The special development order for the old Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club, which closed in 2016, came under fire from objectors who claimed i...

The new transport minister learnt of his appointment to the Cabinet only the night before the swearing-in ceremony yesterday. David Burt, the Premier, said both Neville Tyrrell and Renée Ming had been informed on Wednesday night. Mr Burt added: “Ther...

The Bermuda Housing Trust has received a clean and unqualified financial audit. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, tabled the Trust’s audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2019, in the House of Assembly tod...

Cabinet appointments to the national security and tourism and transport portfolios will go ahead today. The replacements for Wayne Caines and Zane DeSilva, who both quit Cabinet last week over a public breach of Covid-19 health restrictions, were exp...

A restaurant in the Town of St George will expand into Water Street as part of an al fresco dining initiative. The Corporation of St George announced yesterday that it would close a section of the historic street to traffic several nights a week to a...

Rumours that Wayne Caines has been hired by Ascendant Group have been firmly denied by the company. Ascendant responded to a question from The Royal Gazette yesterday about claims circulating on social media that the former Minister of National Secur...

Jason Hayward decided to “give back” on his birthday, donating funds to youth programmes in his constituency. The Minister of Labour donated $5,000 each to North Village Community Club, Western Stars Sports Club and the Young Men’s Social Club, all o...