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Coming as it does less than a fortnight after Michael DeSilva outlined the way forward for the Bermuda Police Service over the next three years, yesterday’s release from the union whose mandate it is to safeguard the welfare of the officers who will ...

The Bermuda Police Association has expressed concerns about an impasse in budget negotiations with the Bermuda Government. In a statement released tonight, Police Association chairman Andrew Harewood said the association originally entered into negot...

A new regime designed to significantly modernise disciplinary procedures in the Bermuda Police Service has been warmly received by key players in law enforcement. Victor Marshall, a leading British authority on professional standards within police fo...

A leading authority on improving professional standards within police services has arrived in Bermuda to help formulate plans to modernise the force’s disciplinary regime. Victor Marshall will be meeting with key stakeholders in the Bermuda Police Se...

The Commissioner of Police, Michael DeSilva, has hinted that further redundancies will be made in the service in the coming months to meet budget targets. Outlining the 2016 Police Strategy at a press conference yesterday, Mr DeSilva said he had info...

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment on a legal dispute between the Minister of Home Affairs and the Island’s unions. Throughout the week, lawyers for both sides have called for the court to make declarations stemming from an industrial action whi...

A legal battle over industrial action on the Island continued yesterday, with a lawyer for the unions arguing that a government notice was insufficient. The notice, published online on January 27 and in The Royal Gazette the next morning, stated ther...

The Bermuda Government’s persistent attempts to force workers to accept continued furlough days undermined its contractual obligations, according to a lawyer representing the unions. Delroy Duncan, who represents five of the Island’s unions in a cour...

Belco management has agreed to put on hold its pension plan discussions that yesterday sparked a protest by workers. Scores of Belco employees marched through Hamilton over proposed changes to their pension plans and later gathered outside the utili...

A legal battle between the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Island’s unions has begun with a lawyer representing the Bermuda Government saying illegal strikes threaten the economy and future negotiations. While the call for an injunction to halt walk...

The following is a letter dated November 20, 2015, in response to Lily Eskelsen García, the president of the National Education Association (United States) and vice-president of the North American and Caribbean arm of Education International. Dear Ms...

A ruling was delivered today by Chief Justice Ian Kawaley on the impending legal action between the Bermuda Government and the Bermuda Trade Union Congress (BTUC). Mr Justice Kawaley has found that while the unions attend the Supreme Court next week,...