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Financial assistance is potentially available for local veterans and their widows in cases of need, with the help of overseas organisations. Veterans deemed eligible by the Bermuda Legion can apply for annuities from the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Service...

Minister of Home Affairs Michael Fahy announced tribunal reform plans, speaking on the resumption of the Senate this morning. Sen Fahy said that he envisages this as a pilot project focusing on tribunals under the Ministry of Home Affairs, with the ...

Senators called it “a sad day” as they spoke on the passing of the Municipalities Amendment (No 2) Bill 2015, which provides for ministerial control of corporation affairs. The legislation also gives the Minister of Home Affairs, or a person appoint...

Bermuda soldiers today turned riot squad and faced down a hostile crowd and a barrage of missiles. Soldiers from A Company teamed up with the Operational Support Unit (OSU), the regiment’s public order specialists, to deal with escalating hostilities...

Writer’s note: This is something I wrote three years ago yet still applicable today. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone . . . ” John 8:7 In my recent previous columns we examined the social and individual changes we need to examine as a ...

With the Conservatives firmly in power in Britain after last week’s General Election, the issue of beneficial ownership registers will not be as topical as in the lead-up to the poll, Premier Michael Dunkley has predicted. The initiative had been tru...

Bermuda Regiment training exercises continue in North Carolina this week, with the soldiers battling rainstorms caused by Tropical Storm Ana. Troops braved downpours as they began a force-on-force exercise, where opposing Regiment platoons will tak...

Leader of the Opposition Marc Bean has been summoned to court this month to face two charges of using offensive words in a case that relates to a heated exchange last year with Toni Daniels, the former One Bermuda Alliance senator. Mr Bean, who was s...

The Canadian Commercial Corporation has added its voice to the growing controversy surrounding plans to build a new airport in Bermuda. The company issued a statement this afternoon, just an hour after the People’s Campaign made public a raft of comm...

Shadow Minister of Home Affairs Walton Brown has congratulated the new mayors of Hamilton and St George. Charles Gosling was elected as Mayor of Hamilton last Thursday night by a sizeable majority over Carlton Simmons, while Quinell Francis was voted...

Dear Sir, To see Zane DeSilva explaining to the investigative reporter from ZBM on the Wednesday news (May 6) how taxpayers’ and workers’ dollars should be spent to boost our tourist product, was great. It made the heart glow with pride. Essentiall...

Dear Sir, I was bemused by the opinion piece by Robert Stewart as published in The Royal Gazette on May 6, 2015. It purported to link together the thinking of Karl Marx with the almost global recognition of May 1 as “International Workers Day” and m...