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Legislation to set out the framework for a more independent tribunal to hear human rights complaints was approved by the House of Assembly on Friday. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Community, Culture and Sport, said the Human Rights Amendment Act 202...

A review of the island’s litigation guardian system – to represent children in court – has begun in collaboration with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, told the House of Assembly o...

Almost one in three of the complaints received by the Human Rights Commission in 2020 were claims of discrimination on the grounds of disability, according to the Commission’s annual report. The report, tabled today in the House of Assembly by Tinee...

An epidemic of bullying and abuse of expatriate workers is to be tackled by a union chief. Jason Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said a survey at one large organisation with hundreds of employees had shown more than half ...

A Bermuda College conference on race relations on the island Saturday involving a world-class British university will be live-streamed to a bigger audience because of public demand. The event, “Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today”, will ...

On March 2, 1955, a 15-year-old high school student named Claudette Colvin was arrested on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat. This happened nine months before Rosa Parks’s famous arrest in the same circumstances. That un...

Anti-racism group Curb has expressed concerns over the handling of the work permit of the Reverend Nicholas Tweed. Mr Tweed, pastor at the St Paul AME Church and a leader of the activist group the People’s Campaign, reportedly had his work permit ren...

A vigil last night brought out hundreds in support of activist and pastor the Reverend Nicholas Tweed, whose work permit has been turned down. The prayer vigil at St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Hamilton, where Mr Tweed serves, packed t...

Everyone knows that it’s illegal for a hotel such as a Marriott or a Hilton to refuse you a room because of your race. But what about someone who temporarily rents out their own apartment on Airbnb? May he refuse to rent to someone of a particular ra...

The referendum on marriage equality could take place in less than ten weeks but all is so far quiet on the campaign front. The two-question ballot — which will ask whether voters are in favour of same-sex marriage and whether they are in favour of sa...

LGBTQ advocacy group The Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda has called for an immediate reversal of the decision of the Registrar General and Charity Commissioners to grant status to anti-same-sex union group Preserve Marriage saying they may have acted “un...

Three leading female professionals have added their voices to claims that women are underrepresented in the upper echelons of Bermudian business. Michelle Wolfe, Linda Longworth and Christie Hunter Arscott have all called for more to be done to addre...