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The Senate’s independents could hold the balance of power in a vote next week on a controversial Bill to create a legal framework senators in the Upper House for a cannabis industry. There are five Progressive Labour Party senators and three Oppositi...

An Opposition senator is facing renewed pressure to resign after publicly supporting former US President Donald Trump. Senator Marcus Jones claimed he was a “staunch” supporter of Mr Trump in a Facebook post last month, adding that he would pray for ...

An online condolence book has been set up for people to pay tribute to a former government senator and Bermuda Industrial Union veteran. LaVerne Furbert was 74 when she died last month. The Cabinet Office announced today that the condolence book was ...

A “wholesale review”of Bermuda’s tax system will be completed by the end of the year after legislation was passed in the Senate yesterday. The Tax Reform Commission Amendment Act 2020 – which will enable the Minister of Finance to set up the commissi...

Senators yesterday passed the Employment Amendment Act in the biggest expansion of employees’ rights in 20 years. The Act seeks to provide protections for workers against extended probationary periods and bullying. In a slew of other amendments, ber...

Have you ever noticed how you can find a cliché for almost every occasion? Two came to mind during 2020’s last session of the House of Assembly, when MPs gathered, virtually, to pass laws affecting all of us. One cliché was “something’s better than n...

Bermuda’s foster parents – and people who supported them – were celebrated in the Senate yesterday. Lindsay Simmons, the junior social development and seniors minister, praised the hard work and dedication of Bermuda’s foster parents in her maiden sp...

The Opposition today attacked the Government for a failure to deal with legislation in the Senate. Ben Smith, the One Bermuda Alliance senate leader, said the Progressive Labour Party delay in dealing with eleven Bills was “bizarre”. He added that he...

An Opposition senator has accused the Progressive Labour Party of turning the 2016 airport protests into a political football, using the suffering of protesters for point-scoring. Marcus Jones of the One Bermuda Alliance said yesterday he did not wa...

Senators rubber-stamped a number of Government bills during a brisk, virtual session of the Upper House yesterday morning. Streamlining and improved efficiency were the themes of three Acts that were given their second and third readings before being...

A proposed education authority must be free from government influence, a newly appointed independent senator said yesterday. Speaking during the Senate debate on the Throne Speech, John Wight said: “I am pleased to see the creation of an education a...

An Opposition senator questioned how many Bermuda College students on government scholarships had graduated. Marcus Jones, the Opposition Senate Leader, yesterday quizzed Owen Darrell, senator and Junior Minister for the Cabinet Office, Education, an...