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Shernette Wolffe has retired after 20 years’ service as Clerk to the Legislature and gives a frank assessment of Parliament

Shernette Wolffe looks back at the 20 years she spent as the Clerk to the Legislature

Letter writer David Tavares weighs in on the furore started by Derrick Burgess in the House of Assembly

Khalid Wasi looks into the furore Derrick Burgess created with his comments on banking in the House of Assembly

The beginning of the Westminster system dates back to the Magna Carta, which was a document created in 1215 that put a limit and check on the powers allowed to the monarch. Before the Magna Carta, the monarchs had absolute reign over all their subjec...

The Parliament of Westminister in London is considered “the mother of all parliaments”. For more than 900 years, laws have been passed inside those chambers that governed not only how England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were run, but the entirety of...

Two government ministers have been accused of using delaying tactics to dodge answering questions in the House of Assembly. The claims were made against Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, and Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, by th...

Two Bermuda MPs and the island’s Clerk to the Legislature had a place at the table for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference that wrapped up today in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The delegation, with government MP Jamahl Simmons, Opposition MP Susan Jac...

It is increasingly obvious that whoever is running the One Bermuda Alliance has decided to minimalise the amount of time that Cole Simons is allowed to get in front of a camera, speak in Parliament and put out press statements in his name. Undeniably...

Legislation has been tabled in the UK House of Lords that could make same-sex marriage lawful throughout the British Overseas Territories – including Bermuda. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) (Overseas Territories) Bill – tabled by Lord Michael Cashma...

Do you consider yourself a conspiracy theorist? No? Well if, like many other residents and visitors, you think David Burt’s Travel Authorisation requirements are just not working, and need to be scrapped, then you are, apparently. So said Progressive...

Bankers last night reacted to the direct hit they took from government on Friday when David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance raised alarm on the floor of the House of Assembly at the escalating rise in bank fees and charges. The Premier laid...