Politics of Bermuda
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Bermuda is the oldest British Overseas Territory, and the oldest self-governing British Overseas Territory, and has a great degree of internal autonomy through authority and roles of governance delega
King Charles III, head of state of Bermuda
House of Assembly of Bermuda
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The House of Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. The house has 36 Members of Parliament, elected for a term of five years in 36 single-seat cons
Politics of Bermuda
…members of the Council, a body that advised the Governor as the Privy Council of England advised the King, and that functioned as a Cabinet. The elected House of Assembly was created in 1620 under that the Somers Isles Company, functioning as a Lower House of the Parliament of Bermuda with the Council acting as the Upper…
Bermuda House of Assembly and Supreme Court
St. Peter's Church, where the House of Assembly held its first session on the 1 August 1620.
The State House, the home of Bermuda's parliament in St. George's from 1620 until the capital's relocation to Hamilton in 1815. Picture taken in 2006