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The Government is facing a legal challenge after awarding a contract to a foreign shipping company – without first putting the contract out to tender locally. Lawyers for island-based importer Mailboxes Unlimited have written to Wayne Furbert, the Mi...

Family mediators were asked to bid for Government work to help resolve disputes over parental access to children. An invitation to tender was published to cover the “legally mandated function”. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Development and...

A project developer to draw up a plan for the shake-up of the island’s school system is being looked for by the Government. A Request For Proposal was published last week that asked consultancy firms to submit “a strategic programme and project devel...

A plant to turn salt water into fresh water in the East End is planned by the Bermuda Land Development Company. The BLDC has advertised for a contractor to install and run a new reverse osmosis plant in St David’s. A notice from the quango said: “The...

Government has confirmed that it is acting as guarantor for a controversial loan to fund an energy-saving project at the National Sports Centre. In the House of Assembly on Friday, Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, confirmed that Government had...

Opposition MP Craig Cannonier is calling on Government to provide details of the controversial $3.2 million contract to install solar panels at the National Sports Centre. The contract was finally awarded to contractor Atlantic Energy Solutions Group...

The Opposition is calling for an investigation into the funding of a controversial energy project at the National Sports Centre. At a press conference yesterday Craig Cannonier, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for public works, also called for an ...

A claim that the Ministry of Finance owed a sanitation firm more than $900,000 for clean-up work at Morgan’s Point has been thrown out by a judge. Hunt’s Sanitation Services, run by Nelson Hunt, claimed it was owned $908,766 for remediation and clean...

The artist who wins a commission to decorate a Government office will get paid for their work, following an intervention from the Premier. Government sent out a request for proposal earlier this week, calling on artists to submit ideas for a mural in...

A total of 62.5 vacant posts have been defunded by the public works ministry, the public works minister revealed today. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the cost-cutting measure came after the ministry’s allocation was cut by almost $4 million to ...

The Minister of Public Works yesterday defended a decision to relocate a government department to offices owned by a Progressive Labour Party MP. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch hit back after the The Royal Gazette reported yesterday that the Departm...

A second government department has rented office space from a company linked to a Progressive Labour Party MP – at a cost of almost $800,000 a year. The Department of Child and Family Services has signed a five-year contract with F&E Holdings, where ...