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A five-year-long lag in audited accounts for Bermuda’s biggest quango is “totally unacceptable”, an independent senator claimed this week. James Jardine said that audited accounts had not been prepared and issued for the Bermuda Hospitals Board since...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Ministry of Public Works, delivered a ministerial statement about the Government’s partnership with Belco on co-ordinated road trenching. • To read Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch’s ministerial statement in full, cl...

National security minister Wayne Caines updated MPs with a ministerial statement about Bermuda’s first coastguard unit, which was launched in the West End earlier this month. • To read Wayne Caines’s ministerial statement in full, click on the PDF un...

Heritage Month will have the theme “We are Bermudian” to help the Government promote the island’s cultural identity. Cultural affairs minister Lovitta Foggo urged people to reflect on their commonalities throughout the month of May. She told the Hous...

A new programme in Bermuda’s schools will help children develop their reading skills. Education minister Diallo Rabain said teachers had been trained on the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum, which has been introduced to preschool, P1 and P2 cla...

Many seniors have fears about their financial security, Bermuda’s newest senator said yesterday. Ianthia Simmons-Wade explained that older island residents were worried that they may not be able to live off their savings and pensions with a rising c...

The 400th Anniversary Steering Committee is planning a number of events scheduled to take place this year in recognition of the 400th anniversary of the first sitting of Bermuda’s Parliament. Both the President of the Senate, Mrs. Joan Dillas-Wright,...

The Progressive Labour Party has pledged to give the public the chance to help shape its agenda. The party has launched PLP Listens, where the public can suggest policy ideas that can be carried out the second half of its five-year term in government...

A sombre feeling is spreading among Germany’s elites as the long-term implications of Brexit sink in. Of the European Union’s 27 member states, Ireland obviously has the most to fear from Britain’s departure. But Germany may be second. That is becaus...

The Progressive Labour Party has elected its first female party chair. A PLP spokeswoman announced that Dawn Simmons was elected to fill the post at the reconvening of the party’s Annual Delegates’ Conference on Monday night. She added that Steven Ro...

A crackdown on antisocial and illegal behaviour in Hamilton is to be launched, it was revealed yesterday. The Corporation of Hamilton said one way it would help tackle the problem was by the removal of obstructions used as a screen by criminals. A ci...

Dear Sir, In the column published in The Royal Gazette on February 7, written by MP Christopher Famous and titled “One cannot serve two masters”, he endeavours to make at least one point on incorrect information. He writes: “Let us consider this inte...