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Schools are on track to reopen in September after a “mammoth task” to create safety rules to reduce the risk of Covid-19, the education minister said yesterday. Diallo Rabain added that social-distancing requirements and a 30-minute health check ever...

The Government was accused yesterday of withholding information about a controversial dinner party that cost two Cabinet ministers their jobs. MPs heard yesterday that an application for 130 guests at Blu Bar & Grill Restaurant, dated June 26, was se...

The Registrar of Companies will oversee dealers in high value goods after MPs passed legislation last night. The supervisory function will transfer from the Financial Intelligence Agency under the Registrar of Companies (Supervision and Regulations) ...

MPs approved amendments removing the requirement of people to be retired in order to apply for pension refunds. The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment No 2 was passed with no objection. The amendments allow members and former ...

A luxury housing development up for debate by MPs today has been defended as a “win-win” for the island. The special development order for the old Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club, which closed in 2016, came under fire from objectors who claimed i...

Many years ago — in fact, to be precise, it was 45 years and just shy of one month — I learnt that the idea of “judgment day”, as opposed to being a cataclysmic event, was actually always happening simultaneous to what we perceived as now. That livi...

The Bermuda Housing Trust has received a clean and unqualified financial audit. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, tabled the Trust’s audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2019, in the House of Assembly tod...

Rumours that Wayne Caines has been hired by Ascendant Group have been firmly denied by the company. Ascendant responded to a question from The Royal Gazette yesterday about claims circulating on social media that the former Minister of National Secur...

A study has found a drop in drug use among the island’s schoolchildren, the Attorney-General has revealed. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate on Wednesday that a survey of public, private and home-schooled pupils conducted by the Department of Nation...

An Opposition senator appealed yesterday to the public to lobby MPs over the Government’s plan to do away with the corporations of Hamilton and St George. Dwayne Robinson, of the One Bermuda Alliance, highlighted that legislation to abolish the munic...

A law to protect the young from grooming for sex by people in positions of power was backed yesterday by the Senate. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said the Criminal Code Amendment Act would create a new crimi...

Casino fees could be waived or deferred in exceptional circumstances in amended regulations approved by the House of Assembly. David Burt, the Premier, explained that hurricanes and public health emergencies were included in the scenarios that might ...