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The cause of the blaze, reported shortly before 2.30am, is being investigated

The conference also received a commitment from the British House of Commons to look at ways to involve the territories in UK parliamentary committees

A government backbencher was told last night he would have to apologise after he made a “monkey” reference believed to be about another MP. Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, appealed to parliamentarians to think about how they repr...

The shock resignation of Curtis Dickinson as finance minister today drew mixed reactions from political commentators. Some politicians said that the Progressive Labour Party administration would be wounded by the loss. But others argued that the gov...

As the clever old saw goes: if you want to kill an idea, even a good one, send it to a committee for study and recommendation. The tactic came to mind when the question surfaced very recently at one of those televised Covid press conferences as to wh...

MPs were slapped down for behaving like a “classroom of schoolchildren” by the Speaker of the House of Assembly yesterday. Dennis Lister Jr issued a stern warning after images of MPs asleep in the chamber circulated on social media. Mr Lister had “no...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly questioned yesterday if race had played a part in the United Kingdom’s decision to impose public registers of company ownership on its Overseas Territories. Mr Lister, one of four Bermudian MPs who attended a regi...

Veteran MP Dennis Lister Jr, the Progressive Labour Party’s choice for Speaker of the House when Parliament resumes tomorrow, has pledged to forge “togetherness” in the session ahead. “I will allow a free flow of debate and provide the Members respec...

The Government’s fleet of cars has had 16 new purchases since January 2013, according to Francis Richardson, the Permanent Secretary of Public Works. Fourteen came from Bermuda Motors, while two came from the dealership Auto Solutions. The details ca...

Dennis Lister yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry he had no personal interest in going against the recommendation of technical officers over which firm was given the contract for the Dame Lois Browne-Evans project. The former Minister of Works a...

Building materials intended to fix the St George’s swing bridge have rusted after sitting outside for five months, The Royal Gazette has discovered. Dennis Lister, the Shadow Minister of Public Works, called the matter “symptomatic of the Government’...

Two men have been presented with new pedal bikes as part of an initiative to raise awareness about mental health issues in Bermuda. The donation to George Gilbert and Tony Smith was made on Thursday and is designed to help them deal with their own me...