Newly released public travel records posted to Bermuda’s official government travel transparency webpage have revealed the total cost of Premier David Burt’s February 2026 working trip to St. Kitts and Nevis, totaling exactly $3,736.10 — all of which covered the premier’s transoceanic air travel for the engagement.
The four-day official visit ran from February 24 to February 27, 2026, and centered on Burt’s attendance at the 50th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a landmark regional gathering marking five full decades of CARICOM’s work advancing integration across the Caribbean. This historic session was also the first CARICOM heads of government conference held under the new chairmanship of Dr. Terrance Drew, Prime Minister of host nation St. Kitts and Nevis. Burt was joined on the trip by Bermuda’s Minister of Home Affairs, Alexa Lightbourne.
Over the course of the conference, Premier Burt took part in every scheduled plenary and working session, where regional leaders centered talks on pressing priorities for the bloc: deeper cross-border cooperation, improved coordinated security responses, broad-based economic diversification across member states, and expanded intra-regional trade flows. A key topic for Bermuda’s delegation was the territory’s ongoing accession process toward full membership in CARICOM; Bermuda currently holds associate member status and has steadily expanded its institutional and diplomatic engagement with the bloc in recent years.
On the sidelines of the formal conference proceedings, Burt also held a series of one-on-one bilateral meetings with leaders from other Caribbean Overseas Territories, focusing on shared priorities and collaborative initiatives for smaller territories.
Burt’s participation in the 50th CARICOM summit follows his attendance at the 49th heads of government meeting, a consistency that underscores Bermuda’s long-term commitment to active engagement in the highest levels of Caribbean regional governance, per the official government description of the trip.
The St. Kitts and Nevis leg of Burt’s travel came immediately after a separate working visit to San Francisco, where he was invited to lead a high-profile session at NEARCON 2026. Titled “The ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Approach to Innovation and AI as the Next Regulatory Frontier,” the session explored how Bermuda’s unique tripartite collaboration framework between government, industry regulators, and private sector stakeholders can be adapted to build fit-for-purpose regulatory regimes for artificial intelligence in global financial services. While in San Francisco, Burt also held closed-door meetings with C-suite executives from leading digital asset and artificial intelligence firms.
Following the conclusion of the CARICOM summit, Burt returned to Bermuda on February 27, 2026, in time to take his seat in the House of Assembly for the scheduled General Economic Debate.
The full public disclosure of travel costs follows a growing pattern of proactive release of official travel expenses by the Bermuda government, with recent disclosures also published for other ministerial trips to destinations including Switzerland, Dubai, Barbados, and other global locations. The release also comes as the territory’s Auditor General carries out a broader review of official government travel expenses.