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Bermuda Police Service Summer Update

Mr. Speaker, in anticipation of our annual Cup Match Holiday weekend, I rise this morning to provide this Honourable House with an update on the Bermuda Police Service’s policing performance and holiday safety and policing plans…

Post-Brexit Working Group

Mr. Speaker, now that the leadership process in the UK has been completed and the new Prime Minister had signaled a clear intention for the UK to leave the European Union as at 31st October, Bermuda, like many other Overseas…

Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation Team Summer Update

Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to update this Honourable House on the work performed by the Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation Team within the Ministry of National Security. Honourable Members will recall that the Team was…

OECD Forum on Harmful Tax Practices – Economic Substance Legislation

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to advise this Honourable House and the listening public that the OECD’s Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (the “FHTP”) has formally reported its approval of Bermuda’s Economic Substance legislative framework, including the…

National Pension Scheme Update

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to advise Honourable Members and the general public on recent developments and proposals under consideration relating to Bermuda’s National Pension Scheme.

Honourable Members will be…

Better Management Of Pati

Mr. Speaker, the public access to information regime is well known to Honourable Members and the public.  It began with the Act passed in 2010 followed by Regulations in 2014.

Mr. Speaker…

Minister Foggo - Modernisation Of Bermuda’s Labour Laws

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to provide to the Members of this Honourable House with an update on the progress of the Modernisation of Bermuda’s Labour laws that I spoke about on the 5th July 2019.   

Minister Foggo Congratulates Mini-Cup Match Victors

Congratulations to the St. George’s cricket team who were the victors of today’s 23rd Annual Mini Cup Match. The score was 131-109.

Each year, the Department of Youth, Sports and Recreation host the Mini Cup Match to…

New Director Appointed to the Department of Planning

The Ministry of Home Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Victoria Pereira as the new Director of the Department of Planning.

In her new role, Ms. Pereira will lead the Department in facilitating investment and…

Brief Interruption in Bus Service This Morning

The Department of Public Transportation (DPT) confirms there was a brief interruption in bus service this morning, due to a water outage at the Fort Langton bus depot.

Works and Engineering attended and were able to successfully resolve…