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The Opposition’s Budget reply was last night criticised by government MPs as too long – but short on substance. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, attacked a claim by Cole Simons’, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, that payroll tax wou...

The first signature school programmes are on schedule to start in September, the education minister told the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain said financial technology, vet sciences, medical sciences and automotive technology will be among the subje...

Four key triggers for jobs recovery have been targeted to kick start growth, the economy and labour minister told the House of Assembly today. Jason Hayward said the recovery plans were aimed at powering Bermuda out of the economic crisis caused by ...

Welcome to The Royal Gazette’s live coverage of today’s House of Assembly. We will be bringing live updates of the main Budget debate, and much more

A controversial move to legalise cannabis will go back to the House of Assembly today. The legislation was earlier blocked by the Senate – but the Upper House can only hold up Bills for a year before they go back to MPs for another vote. Lawrence Sco...

The Premier has tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time, it was revealed last night. The news came after David Burt cancelled a post-Budget press conference scheduled for yesterday. It was also announced that the Chamber of Commerce’s a...

Julian Hall, the late lawyer and politician, once had a newspaper column called “Through the Looking Glass”. He said he named it after the sequel to Alice in Wonderland because in the Lewis Carroll novel, Alice enters a strange new world through a l...

Michael DeSilva, the former police commissioner, is in line to become the next Ombudsman, MP Derrick Burgess has claimed

A beleaguered Premier last night appeared to get only lukewarm support from his own party in a stormy debate in the House of Assembly. Michael Dunkley, the shadow health minister and shadow national security minister, threw down the gauntlet during t...

Covid-19 emergency health orders were yesterday extended until the end of March. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that the extension, approved by the House of Assembly, was required because the current order would expire at the end of the mon...

Legislation to drop “blaming and shaming” in divorce proceedings was yesterday passed by MPs. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the House of Assembly that the Matrimonial Causes (Faultless Divorce) Amendment Act was “the first part of a ...

Welcome to The Royal Gazette’s live coverage of the House of Assembly, which started at 10am. MPs are now on the motion to adjourn, where the resignation of Curtis Dickinson as finance minister is the main topic of debate. Ministerial statements on ...