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A new development plan for Hamilton, including a development scheme for “bonus floors”, was unveiled in the Senate yesterday by Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. The Draft City of Hamilton Plan 2015 is to go out for three months of public consultat...

Bermuda urgently needs a frank conversation about race relations, One Bermuda Alliance Senator Jeff Baron told the Upper House at the close of debate. “Are we there yet? We may not be there yet, but certainly we need to get there,” Sen Baron said, ca...

The Progressive Labour Party has called on Attorney General Trevor Moniz to resign, accusing him of misleading the House of Assembly regarding controversial criminal justice legislation. However Mr Moniz has responded that the PLP have been “mischiev...

Health insurance alterations have gone before the Senate — minus changes to governmental cover for mammograms. One Bermuda Alliance Senator Lynne Woolridge said the mammography amendment had been dropped in the face of “significant public misgivings”...

The Progressive Labour Party criticised a move to expedite the processing of status applications at the close of the House of Assembly. While Government said that KPMG volunteered to assist in the process at no cost to the Government, PLP Members of ...

A programme that served 447 high-risk children struggling with antisocial behaviour is no longer in operation, according to Nandi Outerbridge, the Junior Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs. The High Risk Programme, set up in August 2010, also...

Opposition MP Rolfe Commissiong has criticised The Royal Gazette’s editor Tim Hodgson for quoting John C Calhoun in a “racist” and “condescending” manner in an opinion piece. He highlighted the editorial, Exercising real people power, published on M...

The Land Valuation and Tax Amendment Act 2015 has been passed in the House of Assembly. Among its modifications to property law, the legislation allows for the Land Valuation Tribunal to consider a unit’s market rental value in assessing objections....

All Bermuda College students will be charged full tuition from the beginning of the next tuition year. The announcement was made by Education Minister Wayne Scott yesterday as he tabled financial statements from the college. “It should be noted at th...

Time limits are set to be imposed on clients of the Island’s burgeoning financial assistance programme. Able-bodied recipients will be able to claim up to a maximum of five years, with payments reducing annually after the first year. The amendments, ...

Dear Sir, When Progressive Labour Party Leader Marc Bean was suspended from the House of Assembly by way of a motion tabled and carried by the One Bermuda Alliance, some commentators warned this was a precedent-setting blot on Bermuda’s political lan...

Dear Sir, About three weeks ago, when Marc Bean was censured in the House of Assembly, he told the press that the Speaker of the House, Randy Horton, ran the censure debate so badly that it prevented Mr Bean from defending himself. He said the Opposi...