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The island’s first information privacy legislation has been passed in the Senate, but is likely to be delayed two years to allow organisations to prepare. However, a privacy commissioner will soon be enacted, national security minister Jeff Baron tol...

Heritage Wharf will be reconveyed “imminently” from the West End Development Corporation to the Bermuda Government, according to public works minister Craig Cannonier. Speaking in the House of Assembly on Friday, the minister said the 2.76 acres of ...

Customs and land tax duty relief will be granted to the Hamilton Princess for the conversion of an office block into staff accommodation — despite opposition from the Progressive Labour Party. During the House of Assembly debate on the Hotels Concess...

MPs engaged in sometimes terse goodbyes on Friday night as the House of Assembly closed for the summer. Sly digs, open accusations and litigation threats flew during the Motion to Adjourn, before agitated Speaker of the House Randy Horton brought mat...

A Bill to protect the personal information of Bermuda residents has been passed in the House of Assembly. The Personal Information Protection Act 2016 “captures the very latest privacy rights and principles found across the world” and “marks a pivot...

A culture of secrecy obscures the island’s reporting of suicide figures, Parliament heard, as the latest statistics for births, marriages and deaths were tabled. The 2015 report from the Registrar General listed 583 births, up 9 per cent from 2014; t...

It is likely to be a year before the Human Rights Amendment Act, turned down by the Senate, can be brought back to Parliament by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert said he had sought three legal opinions after Thursday’s narrow 6-5 defeat in the...

The health of the island’s bee population came up for discussion during the motion to adjourn at the Senate. Senator Georgia Marshall, of the One Bermuda Alliance, spoke about the importance of looking after Bermuda’s bees and warned: “If we lose our...

Legislation paving the way for the first pensions and benefits hike in five years for more than 12,000 seniors has been approved by senators. The Contributory Pension Order 2016 will take effect from next month and involves increases of 5 per cent fo...

Parliamentarians and senators have paid tribute to Johnny Barnes, who died in the early hours of last Saturday at the age of 93. In the House of Assembly yesterday, several MPs rose to express their condolences to Mr Barnes’s family as well as share ...

Taxi drivers are refusing to work this weekend after transport minister Senator Michael Fahy declined to take his controversial minicar Bill off the table. The move could have a serious impact on thousands of tourists, as the cruise ship Anthem of th...

Progressive Labour Party MP Wayne Furbert has vowed to bring his rejected Human Rights Amendment Act back to the House of Assembly, but is now willing to entertain the possibility of civil unions. Yesterday, the Senate sent back the Bill, which aime...