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The House of Assembly will henceforth mark the passing of former legislators with a minute’s silence, under a show of respect proposed by Speaker Randy Horton. Members of Parliament duly stood in silence in memory of Vincent Bridgewater, who represen...

Elderly patients are being abandoned at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, causing a shortage of beds that has led to the postponement of surgeries, Health Minister Jeanne Atherden told the House of Assembly. “Our hospital is being used as a residenc...

Dear Sir, I bleed OBA red. Despite my lifelong policy of never saying never, I would never vote for the PLP as long as the likes of Marc Bean, David Burt and Zane DeSilva represent their brains trust. I fully understand and appreciate the financial...

Bermuda Tourism Authority staff who meet performance objectives are eligible for bonuses of five to 30 per cent of their baseline salary, Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell told the House of Assembly yesterday. “As of this morning, I was advised that n...

Despite a new fuel charge introduced in the latest Budget, electricity rates will not rise, according to Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons. Dr Gibbons cited the recent drop in oil price, which reduced the electricity cost to Belco customers...

The decision to bypass war veterans and pay their pensions directly to nursing homes has been faulted as a cutback targeting an especially undeserving group. Carol Everson, a welfare case worker for the Bermuda Legion, conceded that reductions might ...

Bermuda’s failure to meet its own goals for spending cuts is “unfortunate” and “will not play out well with rating agencies and our creditors”, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development. Under the middle-term expenditure frame...

Shadow Finance Minister, David Burt, has condemned Government’s strategy of “across the board cuts” to tackle Bermuda’s financial problems. He also accused the One Bermuda Alliance of “a stream of policy reversals in the last 72 hours” that proved cu...

Craig Cannonier appeared last night to backtrack on the decision to close Bermuda’s recycling plant for a year. Twenty-four hours earlier, the Minister for Public Works had said the move to suspend the Material Recovery Facility service had been made...

Dear Sir, It constantly annoys me to see the PLP criticising the OBA’s spending and their constant scrutiny of anything the OBA does. Did we have any say in the greatest foreign affairs debacle when the former Premier brought four Guantánamo detaine...