• Work Permit Policies and Immigration Initiatives

    Mr. Speaker, I rise today to update the Honourable House with an update of the proposed changes to work permit policies which begins with assessing jobs currently listed in the closed, restricted, special and open job categories. This government…

  • Kings Wharf Rehabilitation
    Ministerial Statement by the Minister of Public Works, Lt. Col. the Hon. David A. Burch, OBE (Mil), ED, JP, MP

    Good Morning Mr. Speaker.

    Last November I reported extensively on the plan for the complete refurbishment of King’s Wharf at the…

  • Amendments to the Premier and Opposition Leaders Personal Staffs Act

    Mr. Speaker, in a Statement to this Honourable House on 11th March 2019, I advised Honourable members of this Government’s intention to advance amendments to the Premier and Opposition Leaders Personal Staffs Act 1983, to start the process of…

  • European Union Tax Delisting

    Mr. Speaker, I addressed this Honourable House at its sitting last week to provide additional background information regarding the actions which Bermuda had taken to address issues related to the EU “Blacklist”.

    This included the political…

  • 2019 Transport Green Paper

    Mr. Speaker, in the 2017 Speech from the Throne, the Government undertook to conduct a thorough review of transportation and to produce a Green Paper on the future of transport that will provide various options for modernisation, which also takes…

  • Tabling of Government Reform Strategic Plan

    Good Morning Mr. Speaker,

    I rise this morning to remind this Honourable House that a Plan for Government Reform has been finalised and implementation has commenced.

    Mr. Speaker, on March 1st, 2019 I informed Honourable Members that…

  • Gang Prevention in Primary Schools

    Mr. Speaker, this morning I would like to highlight and acknowledge the important work of the Ministry of National Security’s Gang Violence Reduction Team, Primary Prevention Initiative, Elliot Kings Group. 

    The Gang Violence…

  • The Cabinet Committee on Social Development

    Mr. Speaker, Bermuda’s ‘cabinet-style’ government allows for the establishment of Cabinet Committees. A Cabinet Committee is designed to provide a greater focus on specific issues separate, and apart from the more general agenda of the full…

  • Deposit Insurance Scheme in Bermuda

    Thank you Mr. Chairman and good afternoon everyone.

    Deposit insurance is a guarantee to eligible depositors in a local financial institution that they will be compensated up to a maximum specified amount should that institution fail,…

  • Minister Foggo represents Bermuda at Labour Ministers’ ILO Conference

    The Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo, JP, MP recently represented Bermuda at the 11th ILO Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour in Barbados.

    The meeting of Ministers, which is typically held…