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Senator Jeff Baron says a series of recent incidents which have transpired within the last week has left the community “terrorised by violence.” Mr Baron, Minister of National Security, sounded off on the occurrences in a release issued on Friday af...

The annual accounts of the Consolidated Fund of the Bermuda Government for 2015-16 have been given an unqualified audit opinion. Finance minister Bob Richards welcomed the news, which he pointed out was the Consolidated Fund’s fourth consecutive clea...

A “noticeable upswing” in employment opportunities touted by the Bermuda Government warrants more careful scrutiny, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs Diallo Rabain told the House of Assembly. During Wednesday’s Budget debate, Minister Patricia Go...

Congratulations indeed are in order for Freddie Evans on his appointment as Commissioner of Education. He has made a lasting contribution to education in Bermuda, is well respected by his peers, having been in the system at grassroots level for as lo...

“Mr Speaker, the PLP’s Agenda for Growth will reduce the cost of doing business in Bermuda, tackle income inequality, reform our tax system, diversify our economy, create jobs in Bermuda, harness technology, promote entrepreneurship, increase our glo...

Several more government schools are to be investigated for possible mould contamination, education minister Cole Simons told the House of Assembly. Mr Simons’s remarks come a few weeks after students at TN Tatem Middle School returned after the build...

The fatal stabbing of Raymond Butterfield highlights an ongoing community issue — not a sport issue — which must be stopped to stem a “national crisis”, according to shadow sports minister Michael Weeks. Mr Weeks said he was “devastated” by the death...

“Hocus-pocus” “Abracadabra” Two of the signature terms of magicians. Whether they are pulling rabbits out of hats or sawing damsels in half, magicians have been using smoke and mirrors combined with the art of distraction to trick their audience fo...

I read with interest Bryant Trew’s February 24 column, “Good governance: actions speak louder than words”, in which he criticises the Progressive Labour Party for proclaiming that it is the party of transparency yet it repeatedly fails to support tra...

Progressive Labour Party Whip Lovitta Foggo took aim at the Bermuda Government’s education budget yesterday, branding parts of it “woefully inadequate”. It came as Cole Simons, the freshly appointed minister, told MPs that $126.991 million had been a...

The battle lines have been clearly drawn in the sand. We have had both the annual Budget speech by the Government, and the response from the Opposition. Neither were supposedly meant as election speeches, but in an election year, the probabilities ra...

Female Progressive Labour Party senators helped announce a new initiative aimed at engaging women and increasing female parliamentary representation to coincide with International Women’s Day. The Women’s Caucus will be “grounded in the grass roots”...