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The Premier has been granted power to appoint a Commission of Inquiry following the passing of an amendment to legislation in the Senate. The amendment to the Commission of Inquiry Act 1935 was brought about by PLP Shadow Minister of Immigration and...

Dockyard’s controversial Heritage Wharf project is expected to go more than $6 million over its original budget. Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last Friday told Parliament that the project’s target price increased from an original $22....

Legislation to introduce casino gaming to the Island was passed in the House of Assembly in the early hours of this morning. The debate drew mixed reviews but was finally agreed upon with two mirno amendments at 1:45am after about ten hours of discus...

MPs face “immediate suspension” from Parliament if they continue to flout orders of Parliamentary conduct. Telling legislators he had earlier felt reluctant to issue a formal rebuke, Speaker of the House Randy Horton said he had growing concerns in r...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority is owed a total of $34,822 in arrears for BTA fees, Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell told the House of Assembly. The statement came in response to parliamentary questions by Opposition MP Zane DeSilva. There are a total...

Highly anticipated legislation for Bermuda’s hosting of the 2017 America’s Cup went before MPs yesterday, laying down the required legal amendments for the Island to deliver on its commitment. Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons told Parliame...

Developers Desarrollos Hotelco Group have been chosen for a five-star St Regis, Starwood hotels resort to be developed in St George’s, starting next May. Phase one of the development will cost $120 million, according to Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwe...

You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics. The House of Assembly has, of course, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...

Two women who were struggling to make ends meet are now on the path to fulfilling their life dreams thanks to a Government programme. Dawn Matthews and Norma Jean Daniels graduated from the Bermuda College last night, and both women credit the Commu...

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither apparently was the Casino Gaming Act. This, Mr. Editor, is legislation of elephantine proportions: some 100 plus pages of over 200 clauses that any reasonable person might regard as complex, if not complicated, mos...

Around 30 people turned out to a Constituency 33 meeting last night to learn about and discuss the proposed Gaming Bill that is to be debated in Parliament today. Constituency 33 MP Jamahl Simmons called the meeting to explain the Gaming Bill and als...

The consultancy team responsible for formulating a new energy regulatory regime for Bermuda has been unveiled. Multinational firm, Castalia, has been enlisted to help develop a national energy strategy that will “define resources and set an implement...