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David Burt had a wide-ranging meeting with Ángel Gurría, the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development during his first official visit to Europe. The meeting in Paris was a chance for the Premier to discuss how t...

Fewer than half of Bermuda residents see the island as “inclusive” and 31 per cent feel uncomfortable because of their skin colour a new report has revealed. The news comes in the Bermuda Vital Signs study for 2017, carried out by the Bermuda Communi...

Last week Friday was my first time sitting in the House of Assembly, and what a day that was. Being a student of Bermudian politics for the past 15 years and listening to the House religiously, hearing some of the shenanigans by grown adults while re...

Governor John Rankin last night thanked Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers and police officers for their hard work in hurricane-hit UK territories in the Caribbean. Mr Rankin said: “I’m both immensely grateful and enormously proud at the role the RBR an...

Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, has announced the membership of the newly formed bipartisan committee on immigration reform. The committee will consist of Progressive Labour Party MPs Renee Ming and Christopher Famous and One Bermuda Alli...

Dear Sir, This is with reference to your article in today’s edition (October 7, 2017) about the spat in the House of Assembly. While Trevor Moniz’s remark was unpleasantly patronising and rather childish, I doubt very much whether he intended any rac...

Opposition senator Nandi Outerbridge called on Government to continue looking into transitional living space, women’s issues and the family mediation council. Ms Outerbridge said in the Upper House that these initiatives were started under the previo...

There have been discouraging signs from our House of Parliament where elected officials are expected to deal with the business of the people in a manner that sends a clear signal that disagreements should never sink to a level where bitter personal e...

Wayne Furbert has replaced Senator Vance Campbell as the Junior Minister of Finance. Mr Furbert, MP for Hamilton West, was sworn in by Governor John Rankin during a ceremony at Government House on Friday. Mr Campbell was unveiled as the Junior Minis...

MPs clashed in a race row in the House of Assembly yesterday. The controversy broke out after One Bermuda Alliance MP Trevor Moniz, the Shadow Attorney-General, clashed with Diallo Rabain, education minister for the ruling Progressive Labour Party. ...

A three-year-old trash truck superfan got a surprise visit from Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works. Colonel Burch visited the home of Stephen Smith — and gave him his own miniature version of a refuse vehicle. The minister s...

Bermuda would have faced a $2.4 million bill to move the air mail processing centre from the airport to the island’s General Post Office, the House of Assembly heard this morning. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told the House that the cost of modifyi...