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The public works minister told MPs yesterday that he will not release a report into the finances of a failed sports centre. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch was speaking after Gitanjali Gutierrez, the Information Commissioner, ordered the Government to...

The decision to hold fortnightly House of Assembly meetings last month was not discussed with the Opposition, its head said yesterday. Craig Cannonier, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, said there had been no dialogue about reducing the number ...

Senators have ditched amendments to legislation designed to create a legal framework for ministers to appoint experts and political advisers. They passed the Premier, Ministers and Opposition Leader Personal Staffs Act 2019 after MPs rejected a rewor...

Legislation for the creation of an independent wage commission is to be tabled this morning in the House of Assembly. The proposed law will be based on the recommendations of a joint select committee that recommended the establishment of a minimum an...

A Bermuda Triangle-themed park is set to take shape in the heart of Hamilton. City Hall said it planned to revitalise Albuoy’s Point park and rename it to make it “more dynamic and user-friendly”. A spokeswoman for the local authority added: “It will...

Steps to bring the Bermuda Post Office “up to the 21st century” have begun, the Cabinet Office minister said this morning. Wayne Furbert said that the Government “is now in the process of enhancing the information technology services and products” p...

Financial statements of the Regulatory Authority were tabled in the House of Assembly this morning. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, tabled the annual financial statements of the RA for fiscal years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Mr Roban...

More than 100 pupils from Bermuda’s public high schools will attend Bermuda College, the education minister said today. Diallo Rabain told MPs that 109 students from the Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy had enrolled. He added: “This is up...

Senior civil servant Major Marc Telemaque asked immigration officials to find a way for Bermuda to issue travel documents to the four refugee Uighurs, but was rebuffed. Major Telemaque sent a “high importance” e-mail in January 2011, the day before h...

“The truths of the Declaration of Independence are not limited by time or place,” John Quincy Adams wrote in 1839. “They belong to the nature of man in every age and every clime. They may be subdued, but they can never be suppressed. They are truths ...

In politics, good gets better and bad gets worse. This axiom perfectly illustrates what we are witnessing in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Since Thursday’s debate, former vice-president Joe Biden has been on his heels as a spec...

Soldiers reinforced civilian volunteers as part of a drive to clear vegetation at an historic estate now designated as a national park, at the weekend. About 20 troops from the Royal Bermuda Regiment teamed up with volunteers recruited by the Governm...