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The Bermuda Tourism Authority spends $18,617 a month on its Washington Mall offices, Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell told MPs in response to parliamentary questions. The organisation has met 11 times thus far, Mr Crockwell added. He said payments fo...

Bill Hanbury has disclosed his salary package to prevent it from continuing to detract from the positive work of the Bermuda Tourism Authority. By revealing that he earns $295,000 per year and receives a $75,000 annual housing allowance, the BTA chie...

A task force to remedy Bermuda’s “deplorable” road safety record will be put together this month, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell said after yesterday’s road safety summit. “Within the next two weeks, I will be calling and visiting people to be pa...

Zane DeSilva has commended the Bermuda Tourism Authority for being transparent after it disclosed the salaries and compensation packages of its chief staff. However, the Shadow Minister for Tourism called for further transparency about the packages: ...

Members of Parliament will return to the House of Assembly tomorrow for the beginning of a new session of Parliament. The first sitting is expected to begin at 10am. Tomorrow’s debate will be followed next Friday by the Government’s Budget Speech.

A trip by Attorney-General Trevor Moniz to Miami for a conference cost about $1,700, according to the Ministerial travel website. The Attorneys General of the British Overseas Territories Conference 2014 was held last autumn to discuss bribery, child...

Defence counsel Kae Thomas-Palacio has branded a decision to ban a pedlar and fisherman from Dockyard as “unconstitutional”. In Magistrates’ Court this week, Mrs Thomas-Palacio was defending Buford Thomas who was found guilty of using threatening beh...

It was only a small slip, of information, Mr. Editor, but it struck me as a possible tell. In the throes of the dispute over furlough days, the BPSU declared that they had been threatened with a 19 per cent hike in health insurance premiums. Around ...

A peddler and fisherman has been banned from Dockyard and found guilty of threatening Wedco Chairman and former One Bermuda Alliance candidate Ray Charlton. Buford Smith, 51, was given a 12-month conditional discharge in Magistrates’ Court for threa...

Unions resorted to industrial action over furlough days prematurely and unnecessarily, according to former Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness, who said the Island’s image had suffered as a result. Mr Edness said that while he was ministe...

A history of the Progressive Labour Party from its birth in 1963 to its ascension to Government in 1998 is nearing completion, but is still open for pictures and accounts to be added to its pages. The epic privately commissioned work, written primari...