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Cab drivers are urging the Government to allow a 20 per cent increase in metered fares

A pledge by the Government to hand out rebates on payroll tax could turn into a “bureaucratic nightmare”, a former finance minister has said. Bob Richards, who held the Cabinet post during the One Bermuda Alliance administration, said the onus would ...

A new independent senator has been appointed to the Upper House by Rena Lalgie, the Governor. Kiernan Bell, a former president of the Bermuda Bar Association, takes over the seat left vacant when Michelle Simmons stood down from the role last month. ...

The Opposition leader, Cole Simons, today said the Premier’s comments about sovereignty made on the day of the Queen’s funeral were “untimely” and “inappropriate”. On Monday David Burt was interviewed by the BBC and paid tribute to the Queen, whose f...

Tributes have been paid to the memory of Queen Elizabeth II during a rare joint session of the Legislature called in her honour today. The extraordinary gathering saw just two out of 34 Progressive Labour Party parliamentary representatives voicing t...

Now is not the time for the island to consider independence, said a former premier who asked the public to vote on the issue more than 25 years ago. Sir John Swan resigned as leader of the United Bermuda Party after over 73 per cent of people who tur...

MPs and senators will gather today to offer remarks and condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Legislators will come together from 10am in a special sitting led by Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and Joan Dillas-Wright, ...

A leading community group has urged the Government to speed up the distribution of financial help aimed at easing the cost-of-living crisis as some families are having to go without enough food or light. Family Centre said it was “urgent” for the Gov...

The Government’s Travel Authorisation Form has been blasted by the Opposition as hamstringing tourism while benefiting “private enterprise”. Susan Jackson, the Shadow Minister of Transport, said the $40 levied on travellers to Bermuda had lost the is...

Rumblings of discontent have emerged in the One Bermuda Alliance over the leadership style of Cole Simons. Mr Simons, at the helm of the party since November 2020 after its crushing defeat in the general election, has come under fire from some member...