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The leaders and officials of the Bermuda Bar Association were elected at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting yesterday. George Jones has replaced Elizabeth Christopher as president. Jerome Wilson is now vice-president in place of Cindy Clarke,...

The Minister of Education will be able to hand pick the deputy chairman of the Board of Education if a proposed law is approved by the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain tabled the Education Amendment (No. 2) Act 2021 in the House of Assembly yesterday...

Legislation banning “revenge porn” will come into effect tomorrow, according to a notice filed in the Official Gazette. The Criminal Code Amendment (Non-consensual Sharing of intimate Images) Act 2021 was approved by the House of Assembly and the Sen...

The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce is to hold a two-part series of virtual lunch and learn sessions for human resources professionals to learn about recent updates to labour legislation on the island. The Chamber said the Employment Amendment Act 2021 o...

A bid to temporarily block mandatory quarantine laws for travellers not vaccinated against Covid-19 was rejected because the applicants failed to show that they would suffer “irreparable harm” under the proposed law. At a hearing last Friday three pe...

A Supreme Court bid for a temporary block on the introduction of a controversial Covid-19 regulation to force non-vaccinated residents who returned from overseas to pay for quarantine in a hotel was rejected yesterday. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun s...

On Wednesday, The Royal Gazette published an article concerning the prescription of the drug ivermectin, which featured an interview with Kyjuan Brown. In that article, Dr Brown advocated the use of ivermectin, whose effectiveness in treating Covid 1...

Legislation has been tabled to let the finance minister move the temporary suspension of payments by Government workers into their pension fund. The amendments, tabled on Friday, would give the Minister the power to retroactively shift the 12-month p...

Legislation to pave the way for casino gaming and a bill to halve the cost of liquor licences are expected to be debated by the House of Assembly today. The two pieces of gaming legislation – tabled in March – were designed to lay more groundwork for...

The Government could face legal action over a plan to force non-vaccinated arrivals to quarantine in special centres at their own expense. Mark Pettingill, a lawyer and former Attorney-General, said that the proposal was “draconian” and that he had 1...

Legislation to ban “revenge porn” was yesterday approved unanimously by Senators. They said the Criminal Code Amendment (Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Act 2021 was a much needed tool to combat the weaponisation of intimate photographs an...

Three convicted gunmen yesterday claimed their trials were tainted by unconstitutional jury selection in the Supreme Court. Leveck Roberts, Quincy Brangman and Khyri Smith-Williams asked to have their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal in the...