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Parents will be appointed for two-year terms to committees working closely with the school system. Education minister Diallo Rabain told the House a Parental Involvement Committee had been meeting monthly with the Commissioner of Education to improve...

Members of the public will retain access to a St George’s beach near a new hotel development. The news came as the House of Assembly repealed an earlier Act to develop the new St Regis hotel in the Olde Towne, which had given “reasonable” access to F...

Legislation to protect those with insurance policies and boost solar energy adoption were approved in the House on Friday. The Insurance Amendment (Number 2) Act and the Electricity Amendment Act both garnered support from both sides of the House. Da...

Legislation designed to make it cheaper for property owners to register their title without a lawyer was passed in the Senate yesterday. Vance Campbell, a Progressive Labour Party senator, said the Land Title Registration Amendment Act would “smoot...

The Government has been accused of “discriminatory” payroll tax reforms that will increase costs for small to medium businesses and “kill jobs”. The attack came from the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance as the House of Assembly debated an amendment t...

The number of births in Bermuda decreased in 2017 for the first time in three years. Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, told the House of Assembly last Friday that there were 578 births in 2017, down from 591 in 2016. In 2015, the figure was...

A pilot project to provide members of the public with trash bins is in the pipeline. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works made the announcement during his Statement in the House of Assembly last Friday. The trash-bin scheme w...

Repair work on schools this summer will cost an additional $3 million, the minister of public works said yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the works kicked off immediately after the end of the school year and were in “full swing”. He s...

“Enhanced security protocols” have uncovered contraband in the island’s Corrections facilities, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security. Mr Caines added that a Corrections officer had sustained minor injuries as a result of a rec...

David Burt, the Premier, took aim at the Opposition after an online report found the One Bermuda Alliance requested and received voter information in 2012. Mr Burt said in the House of Assembly last Friday that the OBA should not make “foolish press ...

Some of Bermuda’s lowest-paid workers could triple their wages within three years after a national living wage is introduced. Economic experts, union officials and employers should decide on the living wage, to be implemented by 2021, according to a ...

Affordable housing in Bermuda will be boosted by “at least 55 additional units” as the Bermuda Housing Corporation adds to its existing inventory. Meanwhile, the Harmony Club, which the Government purchased in 2008, is now vacated by police and is be...