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What follows is the full text of Curtis Dickinson’s statement to the House of Assembly on Friday, March 25, 2022 outlining his reasons for resigning as Minister of Finance Mr Speaker, on the 14th of February 2022, after having served for almost ...

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...

Mask-wearing and other mandates in schools will be optional under relaxed Covid-19 restrictions

MPs are expected to debate the Cannabis Licensing Act this afternoon, a year after it was turned down by the Senate

The House of Assembly has completed the Budget Debate, which has devolved into an annual exercise in futility by Members of Parliament, laced with contempt for the people who elected them to office. The debate is not futile because the Budget is uni...

Ways to support businesses as the island moves to end single-use plastics will be looked at, the Government has said. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, explained that it was planned to implement the change in a way that allowed the best re...

Car licence fees will be cut from April 1 after legislation was passed in the House of Assembly tonight. Drivers will see the cost of an annual vehicle licence cut by 10 per cent after MPs backed the Motor Car Amendment Act 2022. The amendment, pres...

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...