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Too many children are being suspended from public schools for “the wrong reasons”, Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has claimed. Forty-four students were suspended last month, she told the House of Assembly this morning. Seventy percent of the ...

Consumers could soon have more protection when it comes to receiving the service they asked for, under the Consumer Protection Amendment Act 2011. The amendment act protects people who put their vehicles in for a service expecting to pay one price, ...

The community must not take its “foot off the brake” when there is a quiet period in gun crime and remain committed to finding solutions. Government Senator David Burt made the statement in the Senate today when discussing the shooting death of 22-y...

United Bermuda Party Senator Michael Dunkley has criticised Government for hitting businesses in the pocket with an “exorbitant” food licence fee increase. Sen Dunkley told the Upper House that businesses would have no choice other than to raise pric...

Opposition politician John Barritt is calling for backbench MPs to play a “much more meaningful and important role” and possibly get a pay rise for doing so. The Shadow Public Administration Reform Minister claims backbenchers such as him, who earn $...

MPs last night approved more than $160 million in government overspends since 2002. Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards lambasted Government for taking so long to bring the supplementary estimates to the House of Assembly. “Why is that we are in Mar...

Economy Minister Kim Wilson has hit back at claims Government is not providing adequate time for debate on the budget in the Senate. The Senator said the Opposition was responsible for scheduling debates on the Budget, and they had not allocated enou...

Budget cuts at the Ministry of Public Works will cause minimal impact for the public, according to Government Senator Cromwell Shakir. Speaking during the Senate debate on the budget of the Public Works Headquarters and the Department of Public Works...

Opposition Senate leader Jeanne Atherden said she was “surprised” to learn Government development projects could run up to 15 percent over budget. Senator Jeanne Atherden, who spoke during the Senate Budget debate on the Ministry of Finance on Frida...

MPs will today be asked to approve more than $160 million in government overspends over the last decade. And Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards claimed last night there was no good reason why the cost overruns hadn’t been brought to the House of As...