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Senators will return to a spruced-up chamber when they get back to work after Easter, Deputy Speaker Derrick Burgess told MPs last week. “Major work” over Christmas transformed the former Supreme Court 2 in Sessions House, with microphones installed ...

Government reallocated $2.5 million to bolster four ministries in the 2017-18 financial year. The funds moved were already appropriated so do not constitute an overspend. The Ministry of Education received the biggest supplementary injection of $1 mi...

A grant paid to two healthcare clinics in the wake of cuts in fees for MRI and CT medical scans was funded through a vacant post, the Senate heard yesterday. Progressive Labour Party senator Crystal Caesar said no extra money was paid to the health ...

Salaries paid to members of the legislature are to remain unchanged, Parliament heard on Friday. David Burt, the Premier, told MPs that the board appointed to review salaries every two years had not met since 2011. Mr Burt said a new set of ex parte ...

The final cost of legal action against the US-based Lahey Clinic will top $1 million, the Attorney-General said last week. Kathy Lynn Simmons added that the Bill stood at just under $999,000, but about $100,000 in legal bills to the overseas law firm...

The Premier has called for an investigation into former attorney-general Trevor Moniz. David Burt accused Mr Moniz of an abuse of power over his handling of the Bermuda Government lawsuit against the US-based Lahey Clinic during Friday’s motion to a...

Taxi drivers, people with disabilities and new business owners will benefit from financial relief after The Payroll Tax Amendment Act 2018 was passed in the House with no objections. At the same time, payroll tax on notional salaries in owner-managed...

A government Bill was passed in the House of Assembly on Friday night despite a drafting blunder that had technical officers and members of the legislature scrambling to clarify. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health and spokeswoman for legal affairs, ...

More than half of people surveyed by the Government support a new tax on sugar, health minister Kim Wilson revealed on Friday. Ms Wilson told MPs the impact on the baking industry of a tax on raw sugar had been taken into account. She said: “This con...

Former attorney-general Trevor Moniz denied last night he had shredded documents connected to the government lawsuit against the US-based Lahey Clinic. Mr Moniz added that he had never used evidence from a parallel criminal case to support the civil ...

Bermuda’s environmental groups have berated a decision greenlighting commercial quad bike tours on the Railway Trail in the West End. Jonathan Starling, executive director at Greenrock, said the group was “profoundly disappointed” by the announcemen...