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The Bermuda Government’s airport development project is to take shape, two years after the deal first went public, under key pieces of legislation waiting to go before MPs in this session. According to the Government Whip, the Airport Authority Act a...

The Corporation of Hamilton has won a legal challenge against a court order that made it liable for repaying an $18 million loan. Judge Stephen Hellman ruled that the Corporation had no power to guarantee the loan from Mexican Infrastructure Finance ...

Attorney-General Trevor Moniz aims to modernise Bermuda’s dated bribery and fraud laws when the House of Assembly resumes in November. Mr Moniz attended a conference from September 20-22 in the Turks and Caicos Islands alongside his counterparts fro...

Does anyone remember the introduction of the Office of Ombudsman? I do, and also remember that it came at the advice of the British Foreign Office and not because of any evolution of government consciousness on our end. In fact, I can clearly rememb...

Attorney-General Trevor Moniz joined counterparts from other jurisdictions at a conference in the Turks and Caicos. British Solicitor-General Robert Buckland and ten Attorneys General from the Overseas Territories were at the 25th Conference of Attor...

The word is spreading on the applications of collaborative law, a harmonious approach to navigating a breakdown in a relationship. “I’m really excited that we are opening it up to other areas of personal conflict,” said lawyer Jacqueline MacLellan, p...

Physicians have criticised proposed healthcare legislation for unfairly targeting the private sector. The Bermuda Health Council Amendment Act 2016, which is due to be debated in the House of Assembly later this year, came under fire during a public ...

Poor communication between the Bermuda Government and applicants for civil servant posts were targeted by the Ombudsman in her most recent report. According to the 2015 Annual Report, the Ombudsman wrote that her office received a complaint from an a...

Ombudsman Victoria Pearman received 161 new complaints throughout 2015, she revealed as she released her annual report. The Office of the Ombudsman concentrated on individual complaints during the calendar year, launching no systemic investigations....

The Corporation of Hamilton has applied to overturn the legal judgment regarding its $18 million debt over the failed Par-la-Ville hotel project. Mayor Charles Gosling said that the Corporation’s prior administration did not have the remit to enter i...

Colby Coash can point to the moment that his evolution in thinking about the death penalty began. It was September 3, 1994, and Coash — now a conservative senator in the Nebraska legislature but then a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln —...

Legislation establishing a new kind of liquor licence specifically for tourism events has been passed by the House of Assembly. The new Liquor Licence Amendment Act 2016 also increases the fees payable for other kinds of liquor licences with the exce...