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Hundreds of comments were made on a forum set up to canvas opinion on the Government’s proposals for a regulated cannabis regime, the Minister of Legal Affairs said today. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and legal affairs minister, added tha...

A child with special needs was overlooked because of “maladministration” in the Department of Education, a report by the Ombudsman has ruled. Victoria Pearman said improvements were needed to prevent children from education harm in her 2019 report on...

The Bermuda Ombudsman’s office dealt with matters last year including the handling of senior abuse complaint handling, public bus schedule communications, and delayed applications for criminal injuries compensation. The details came in the 2019 repor...

Public feedback has helped redraw the island’s proposals for legal cannabis, according to Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Minister of Legal Affairs. The proposal now includes a licence for personal cultivation, removes fixed penalty zones, and contains clari...

A proposed restriction on cannabis cultivation sites to outside a half-mile exclusion zone around churches and schools may be dropped, the Government signalled tonight. The announcement came after officials launched an online public consultation on d...

Draft legislation for the legalisation of cannabis is to be put out for public consultation, the Attorney-General said last night. Kathy Lynn Simmons unveiled proposals for medical and recreational cannabis use in the Senate last December and the vi...

Legislation to prevent conflicts of interest at the Land Valuation Appeal Tribunal was passed in the House of Assembly. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly that the Land Valuation and Tax Amendment...

Kite enthusiasts clashed with those upset by their noise at a public meeting last night. About two dozen people attended the meeting at Francis Patton School, along with representatives from the Bermuda Police Service and the Department of Public Pro...

A man has denied drink-driving and involvement in a hit-and-run crash that injured a person. Steven Ming, 56, was charged in Magistrates’ Court with causing grievous bodily harm to Marquel Tankard, failure to stop after an accident and drink-driving....

Thanks to sensible law-enforcement policies, violent crime rates dropped by half in the United States over the past three decades. Although increases occurred in 2015-16, the rates again dropped during the first two years of the Trump Administration....

Bermuda’s top police officer has said sex between teachers or other people in positions of trust and children in their care should be a crime, even if the young person is over the age of consent. Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley added outlaw...

An attempt to improve communication over bus cancellations has been launched, the Ombudsman of Bermuda has revealed. Victoria Pearman said that the investigation was in the public interest “given the number of people impacted and the cumulative effec...