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Legislation extending duty relief for the Island’s hotels and restaurants was last night given the go-ahead by the House of Assembly. The Hotels (Temporary Customs Duty Relief) Amendment Bill 2014 and the Restaurants (Temporary Customs Duty Relief) A...

Retired Parliamentarian Reginald (Reggie) Burrows was in great shape Tuesday receiving a seemingly endless stream of politicians and leaders from the church, sports and business spectrum joining in celebrating his 80th birthday and wishing him many h...

GP plates have been removed from Government Ministers’ cars due to security threats, a Minister has revealed. The plates — which identify official cars — have been swapped for ordinary licence numbers to make the cars harder to spot. The news came af...

March 5, 2014 Dear Sir, I’m beginning to wonder if any Government — other than a PLP -style Government — can actually make any difference in Bermuda. And please do not interpret that as a suggestion that a PLP government could ever actually be capabl...

Politics will change when politicians change, one reader told me after last week’s column. He has a point. Albert Einstein put it another way: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our th...

March 5, 2014 Dear Sir, I think there is a solution to the telephone conversations between the MPs and the Ministers and controversies resulting When a call is received an electronic voice kicks in and says “your call may be recorded for quality assu...

A bid to crack down on underage drinking and antisocial behaviour was last night backed by MPs. The House of Assembly approved a bill by Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley to make ID checks at the doors of bars and clubs mandatory. Mr Dunkley sai...

Parliament and the Senate should be put together under the same roof as soon as possible, according to a report on Bermuda’s governance tabled in the House of Assembly. The Joint Select Committee also recommended that a new, independent body known as...

Attorney General Mark Pettingill has refused to respond to Opposition questions over whether Government is investigating allegations of corruption within the Progressive Labour Party. The questions came from PLP MP for Sandys North Michael Scott duri...