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In his speech to the Progressive Labour Party and in his later curtailed statement to the House of Assembly last month, David Burt provided some details on the Government’s plans to allow holders of private pension funds to withdraw a portion of the ...

Plans have been submitted to turn a vacant site on Church Street into a six-storey apartment block. The application, put forward by C33 Ltd last month, proposed a 68-unit apartment building at 33 Church Street. The documents state the building will h...

Legislation to require non-Bermudians be enrolled in a pension scheme was approved in the Senate on Wednesday. The National Pension Scheme (Operational Pensions) Amendment Act will also allow seniors to withdraw up to 25 per cent of their pension sav...

A Bill dealing with pension scheme payments was put on hold after a string of complaints from the One Bermuda Alliance at the House of Assembly. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, agreed to “rise and report” on the National Pension S...

The Government has asked for proposals to bring an empty fire-damaged building on the edge of Hamilton back to life. The Ministry of Public Works put out a request for proposal last Friday for a new use for Teucer House on Cedar Avenue. The building ...

An affordable housing complex is to get two new blocks which will include a total of 28 three-bedroom homes, the public works minister said yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the extra space at the Harbourview Village in St David’s repres...

Communal areas of an East End housing complex slammed for unsanitary conditions are regularly cleaned, a government representative said yesterday. The spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said that the Bermuda Housing Corporation employed prof...

Repeated complaints about “deplorable conditions”, including rats, at an East End emergency housing complex have been ignored, a resident has claimed. The woman said that problems she had highlighted at government-run Gulfstream, in St David’s, had n...

A former resident of under-threat historic Dockyard houses pleaded for their preservation yesterday. Roger Bendall, who now lives more than 10,000 miles away in Sydney, Australia, said the crumbling Victorian-era terraced homes in Albert Row should b...

An abandoned car has sat outside a Bermuda Housing Corporation property for more than a year, the head of the residents’ association said yesterday. Charles Jeffers, who lives at Lily Park in St George’s, said the car was an eyesore and had been used...

A first-time tenant said the Office of the Rent Commissioner admitted it could not help after her landlady backtracked on an agreement to return her deposit after she quit her apartment. Yesterday, the woman, who asked not to be named, said the depar...

Reports of unpaid war veteran benefits are to be investigated, a Government representative said last night. The spokesman said that “the Ministry of Finance has undertaken a review of the claims”. He added that a statement on the matter would be re...