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A campaigner for the disabled has thrown her support behind a government plan to give more contracts to businesses owned by the disabled, women and black people. LaKiesha Wolffe, who has an artificial leg and is the founder and owner of A New Life Co...

A Bill designed to help the island operate in a global market was backed by MPs. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said that the Bermuda Bar Amendment Act 2020 was among legislation to be introduced by the Government to help positio...

Job satisfaction among the working population appears to have increased over the past year, the Minister for the Cabinet Office said yesterday Wayne Furbert revealed that underemployment dropped by more than 10 per cent between May 2018 and May 2019,...

Getting into the Christmas spirit, the Bermuda Post Office (BPO) hosted its annual “Postcard to Someone Special” event this week for nursery and primary school students. According to the Acting Post Master General, Susan Moore-Williams “Postcard to ...

Bermuda’s economy is not in an ideal spot, the Minister for the Cabinet Officer said yesterday. Wayne Furbert said: “It’s not where we want it to be.” But he added: “Where we want it to go is where we are heading.” Mr Furbert said that for economi...

The Minister for the Cabinet Office said yesterday Bermuda was not in a recession. Wayne Furbert added the bulletin of statistics for the last quarter of 2018 showed “some positive growth”. He said retail sales had been down, but that could not be th...

Wayne Furbert has replaced Senator Vance Campbell as the Junior Minister of Finance. Mr Furbert, MP for Hamilton West, was sworn in by Governor John Rankin during a ceremony at Government House on Friday. Mr Campbell was unveiled as the Junior Minis...

A Bill that would solidify marriage as being between a man and a woman has been brought back to the House of Assembly for a second time. Progressive Labour Party MP Wayne Furbert has reintroduced the Human Rights Amendment Act as a Private Member’s ...

Wayne Furbert has been named the new chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. In the House of Assembly yesterday, Speaker Randy Horton also announced that Michael Weeks would be joining the committee. It comes after shadow finance minister David Bu...

It is likely to be a year before the Human Rights Amendment Act, turned down by the Senate, can be brought back to Parliament by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert said he had sought three legal opinions after Thursday’s narrow 6-5 defeat in the...

A Progressive Labour Party proposal to form a bipartisan job-creation committee has been unanimously rejected by the One Bermuda Alliance. PLP MPs responded angrily to the snub, with Jamahl Simmons accusing the Bermuda Government of being “uninteres...

The Bermuda Government’s three-pronged approach to tackling marriage equality has created “total confusion”, according to an Opposition MP. Same-sex marriage opponent Wayne Furbert said announcing a referendum, introducing draft legislation on civil ...