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A top-level shake-up of the Civil Service is to cost taxpayers an extra $40,000, Lovitta Foggo told Parliament yesterday. The government reform minister said the increase was because the post of Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service had bee...

A Bill to provide greater supervision of the corporations of Hamilton and St George was debated in the House of Assembly on July 10, 2015. You may recall I brought forward that legislation as Minister of Home Affairs during my tenure as steward of t...

The end of conscription will be “a death knell” for the island’s defence force, a group of former commanding officers warned yesterday. The Nine Colonels, who battled against plans to end conscription into the Royal Bermuda Regiment, said it had pred...

The lawsuit undertaken by the former One Bermuda Alliance government put Bermuda’s treaty relationship with the United States at risk, the Speaker of the House said on Friday night. Denis Lister said: “Our treaty relationship was in threat, based on...

Dear Sir, There are so many issues flowing from Brexit that will affect Bermuda very positively, but the island needs to act urgently to harness the opportunities. Yet I get a sense that the Government doesn’t know how to strategically position itse...

Shadow Attorney-General Trevor Moniz was kicked out of the House of Assembly last night amid a row over files regarding the Bermuda Government’s lawsuit against the Lahey Clinic. He was told to leave after he repeatedly accused national security mini...

New cash for the island’s tourism quango will be earmarked to prepare Bermudians for the hospitality workforce. Jamahl Simmons, Minister of Economic Development and Tourism, said: “Tourism growth and success must include Bermudians at every level of...

Opposition leader Jeanne Atherden questioned during the Budget debate of finance why government staff could not draw cash from the Contributory Pension Fund in times of hardship. David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, said his government h...

Three pieces of legislation were passed without objection in the House of Assembly this week. Members of Parliament approved the Companies and Partnerships (Fees) Act 2018, the Motor Car Amendment Act 2018 and the Auxiliary Bicycles Amendment Act 20...

Municipal elections in May will be postponed for a year after home affairs minister Walton Brown launched an attack on the Corporation of Hamilton’s “failures of accountability”. The Municipalities Amendment Act, tabled yesterday by Mr Brown, will gi...

Jahmico Trott was found guilty yesterday of attempted murder. A jury also convicted Trott, 30, of using a firearm, handling a firearm and carrying a firearm to commit an offence by a majority decision. Trott’s co-accused, Troy Burgess Jr was acquitt...

Tough new rules to crack down on sexual harassment at work are in the pipeline. Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said yesterday that he wanted to introduce new labour laws to combat the problem. Mr Brown is to bring London-based feminist M...