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Backbench MP Jason Hayward was sworn in yesterday as the Minister of Labour as part of a surprise Cabinet reshuffle by the Premier. Mr Hayward will take over responsibility for immigration, financial assistance and workforce development, earlier spli...

Six high-flying undergraduates will intern at the Cabinet Office this summer under a programme offered by the Department of Workforce Development. The scheme, announced in the 2018 Throne Speech, coincides with two other programmes to develop the tal...

The information commissioner has asked the Cabinet Office minister to give civil servants guidelines on how to deal with public access to information requests and the proper management of public records. Gitanjali Gutierrez said in her office’s 2018 ...

Three new schemes to develop young talent will be investments in the future of Bermuda, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt announced the programmes, to benefit ten young people at a cost of about $70,000, in line with a Throne Speech pledge last ...

Marc Telemaque, a former Secretary to the Cabinet, has been sworn back into the post once again by John Rankin, the Governor, at the recommendation of David Burt. Announcing the appointment, the Premier said he was “pleased” that Mr Telemaque had acc...

The salary bill for David Burt’s two-member personal staff comes in at $227,000. Mr Burt, the Premier, said a total of four people were employed under the Premier and Opposition Leader Personal Staffs Act 1983. The information was revealed in resp...

Michael Weeks has been appointed as the new Minister of Social Development and Sport. Mr Weeks, Government Whip since the Progressive Labour Party won the General Election in July 2017, assumes the role which was made vacant by the resignation of Zan...

The cost to split the role of Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service will be revealed when the process is complete, David Burt said yesterday. The Premier fielded questions on the decision to create two posts in the wake of an announc...

The new government’s travel expenses bill for its first three months in office is just over $27,000, according to data released on its new expenses website today. Ministers made eight overseas trips between August 16 and October 14 to the US, Europe ...

A Cabinet of full-time ministers is needed to deliver promises made by the Progressive Labour Party, the Premier has said. David Burt’s PLP team has 11 full-time ministers, compared to seven full-time and five part-time under the previous government ...

The Cabinet salary bill is now about $150,000 more than under the previous government, One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe told the Upper House yesterday. Corey Butterfield, who was hired as a consultant for the OBA following the party’s win in 2...

New MP Wayne Caines and new senator Kathy Simmons were handed frontline portfolios as the Progressive Labour Party swore in its Cabinet team yesterday. Mr Caines, one of the PLP’s big winners in Tuesday night’s General Election, gets the national sec...