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MPs and senators will gather today to offer remarks and condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Legislators will come together from 10am in a special sitting led by Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and Joan Dillas-Wright, ...

The late Queen is to be the focus of a special joint session of the legislature, the Government announced today. MPs and senators will have two-and-a-half hours to offer condolences and remember the monarch’s life following her death on Thursday. The...

Rena Lalgie, the Governor, is expected to announce a replacement by September 21

Legislation designed to protect financial service customers was passed in the Senate. The Bermuda Monetary Authority Amendment Act 2022 will mean that the BMA’s principal 1969 Act will include, among its main objectives, an aim to promote consumer p...

Same-sex marriages that took place before the practice was outlawed are still valid under a Bill passed in the Senate yesterday. The Domestic Partnership Amendment Act extends the transitional period during which same-sex marriages could be carried o...

Emergency laws designed to crack down rapidly on crime will be made permanent after legislation was passed by senators yesterday. In reading the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2022, Ernest Peets, the Government Senate Leader and spokesman for the Minis...

Senators have approved legislation that will see quarantine exemptions for members of certain armed forces removed. The Quarantine Amendment Bill 2022 seeks to amend the Quarantine Act 2017 to make provisions for the Quarantine Authority to make eme...

An order granting a resort tax breaks for redevelopment over the next ten years was rubber-stamped in the Senate yesterday. Under the Tourism Investment Cambridge Beaches Resort and Spa Order, the new owners of the historic west end facility will not...

Parts of national parks are under threat from controversial moves to allow three-wheeler tour guide vehicles into the green spaces, the Opposition has insisted. The One Bermuda Alliance and the Government clashed yesterday on the issue of whether min...

During this week’s epic Senate debate, the One Bermuda Alliance made a point of saying that the Fairmont Southampton project would cause 60 per cent of the construction workers on site to be non-Bermudian. Not sure how it can speak to percentages, as...

The easiest part of observing politics is to sit on the sideline and criticise it. However, I recognise that it is a greater challenge to offer advice and an even greater to offer advice that will actually work. In recent times, particularly during ...

Government has re-tabled legislation to expand options for tour operators to undo amendments put forward by the Opposition and approved by the Senate. Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, this morning tabled the Motor Cars (Livery) Amendment Ac...