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Release of records shows details of cashless gaming talks and concerns of the gaming commission

Information Commissioner expects the records to be made available soon

The Court of Appeal has released its reasons for a decision to uphold an order that barred two lawyers from representing the patients of Ewart Brown. Sir Christopher Clarke, the President of the Court of Appeal, said in a written judgment: “It was, i...

A law firm was found in contempt of court yesterday after it continued to represent patients of Ewart Brown despite a judge’s order not to. Assistant Justice Kiernan Bell told Mark Pettingill and Victoria Greening, of Chancery Legal, they had disobey...

Lawyer Mark Pettingill is to consider a constitutional challenge to legislation designed to replace same-sex marriage with domestic partnerships. Mr Pettingill told The Royal Gazette that a gay couple had approached him to weigh up the potential of t...

Shawn Crockwell had suffered “bouts of ill health” for some time, according to his best friend and business partner. Mark Pettingill spoke for the first time yesterday, to The Royal Gazette, about the death of Mr Crockwell, who was found in an unresp...

The resignation of MP Mark Pettingill has left the One Bermuda Alliance with a “tenuous” grip on power, sources claimed last night, and could prompt a vote of no confidence in the Government. Mr Pettingill announced yesterday morning that “after a lo...

The Bermuda Government’s three-pronged approach to tackling marriage equality has created “total confusion”, according to an Opposition MP. Same-sex marriage opponent Wayne Furbert said announcing a referendum, introducing draft legislation on civil ...

A teenager who was shot in the leg by a gunman on the back of a bike was recovering on a general ward in hospital last night. The 17-year-old boy was injured on Tuesday night after two men on a motorcycle opened fire on a small crowd of six men that ...

A motion to look into allegations of “extortion and bribery” against three government ministers was withdrawn last night by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. The motion, which was tabled by Mr Furbert, proposed that the House should discuss calling on the...

Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for a same-sex couple seeking to marry in Bermuda, has expressed little surprise that the Registrar-General’s office had not posted his clients’ marriage notice by the close of business on Friday, as required. The office w...

A gay Bermudian who is hoping to marry his partner on the Island wants his landmark case to end a culture of people being forced to “live either a lie or in the shadows or behind closed doors”. Ijumo Hayward, 46, and his American partner Clarence Wil...