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Mark Pettingill has placed pressure on the Progressive Labour Party to formally respond to the Auditor-General’s critical report. Speaking at the House of Assembly on Friday night, the One Bermuda Alliance MP compared Heather Jacobs Matthews’s repor...

The implementation of parts of a package of legal reforms has been delayed to allow the judiciary, police and prosecutors more time to prepare for the new rules. Most of the Criminal Jurisdiction and Procedure Act 2015 and the Disclosure and Criminal...

The Bermuda Government is confident that there is still an opportunity for two airlines to succeed in providing service to the Island out of Europe. Shawn Crockwell provided the House of Assembly with an update on his recent trip to the World Routes...

The work of the Human Rights Commission could move ahead at three times its present speed now that it can step out from under the purview of the Bermuda Government. Michael Hanson, the HRC’s outgoing chairman who is finishing his term after three yea...

One Bermuda Alliance MP Nandi Outerbridge has made an official apology to the House of Assembly for making “inappropriate comments”. The apology was read out at the start of Friday’s session by Randy Horton, the Speaker of the House. The “inappropri...

A memo released by the Ministry of Finance shows that Accountant-General Curtis Stovell approved the Bermuda Government to waive financial instructions on its early deals for an airport redevelopment. However, Shadow Finance Minister David Burt, who ...

At the beginning of the week we had no hesitation in saying hats off to CITV — the Bermuda Government Community Television channel — and personnel for exceeding themselves in the production of the back-to-back events relating firstly to the Convening...

A retroactive regime promising zero tolerance for corruption and graft would be a top priority by a Progressive Labour Party Government. Delivering his party’s “peace and prosperity agenda” in response to the Government’s Throne Speech, Marc Bean sai...

Much of Parliament’s eleven-hour Throne Speech debate revolved around whether or not the Island was truly making a recovery from the economic recession. Marc Bean, in the Progressive Labour Party’s reply, maintained that real growth had yet to revita...

Developers could be hit with civil penalties under a raft of new robust measures aimed at tackling those that flout planning rules. The policy was first announced in last week’s Throne Speech and will see the Director of Planning given powers to issu...

Steady as she goes? Maybe, Mr Editor, maybe. Certainly, Throne Speech 2015 didn’t contain any significant surprises — nothing that new and nothing that dramatic — and it struck me as all very matter-of-fact and straightforward in tone and content; ve...

The Bermuda Government and its own Accountant-General clashed last night over permission to depart from financial instructions in a bid to redevelop the Island’s airport. Curtis Stovell, the Accountant-General, told a meeting of the Public Accounts C...