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A winding-down of a short-term economic stimulus programme put in place to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is being looked at by the Government. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said more than $6 million of ...

Alison Crocket, the Deputy Governor, will step down at the end of April and will be replaced by British diplomat Tom Oppenheim

Municipal elections are to be delayed by a year after the House of Assembly backed a legal change. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, tabled an amendment to the Municipalities Act 1923 in the House of Assembly. He acted bec...

The Premier yesterday paid to a former MP found dead in his submerged van last week. David Burt praised Darius Tucker for his mentorship role for young people. Mr Burt said: “He was a member who served on both sides of the aisle, a member who was kno...

A law to clear the criminal convictions of people caught with small amounts of cannabis has stalled because old documents often failed to quantify the amounts of drugs involved

A road map for redrawing Bermuda’s constitution will be developed in consultation with the British Government, MPs were told. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the Budget debate for the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Friday that constituti...

Juvenile court cases soared in 2021, MPs heard on Friday in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the House that new cases sent to the family courts dropped nearly one third in 2021 over the previous year. But she adde...

Bermuda’s independent watchdog against financial crime continues to fight money laundering and terrorist financing despite its “limited resources”. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said the Financial Intelligence Agency had been budgeted $1....

The value of Russian assets held in Bermuda is unknown, the British Government has said. But a parliamentary briefing paper issued last week quoted a 2018 report from Global Witness which claimed Bermuda-based companies had received $7.1 billion in d...

A final bill for repair work to a pilot boat damaged last year is still to be delivered, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, told MPs that the Department of Marine and Ports awaited “the final invoices relat...