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A former finance minister who lost a Progressive Labour Party leadership vote said yesterday he did not back any attempts to change the outcome. In a post on Facebook, Curtis Dickinson also highlighted that he had no involvement in a march apparently...

Residents can apply for a payroll tax rebate that was announced as part of a $15 million economic relief package. David Burt said that 75 per cent of the island’s workforce was eligible for the scheme. The Premier and Minister of Finance told ...

Laws designed to keep more money in people’s pockets were passed in the Senate on Wednesday. They included legislation that will make sure hospitality staff do not hand over payroll tax on gratuities, instant stamp duty relief for first-time homebuye...

A programme management office is being set up within the Government as part of its efforts to deliver universal health coverage, senators heard on Wednesday. Arianna Hodgson, the junior health minister, also told the Upper House that KPMG, a professi...

Pupils in Bermuda’s first signature learning programmes feel excited and that the lessons are “authentic”, senators heard yesterday. Owen Darrell, the junior education minister, said that attitudes were positive after the launch of the schemes at the...

A meeting between the Government and the Auditor-General should take place to work out how to tackle about 130 years of financial statements in arrears, a former senator said yesterday. James Jardine highlighted the importance of up-to-date audited a...

A combined total of about 130 years of public bodies’ financial statements are in arrears, the Auditor-General’s office revealed yesterday. It was said that 42 per cent of those were “under the auspices of” the Ministry of Finance and there was not y...

The appointment of a new accountant-general was announced by the Government this afternoon. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Finance said that Dionne Morrison-Shakir took up the post on August 1. She added: “Mrs Morrison-Shakir is a chartered accoun...

A call for “shadowy” groups to cease and desist has been made by the Premier, who claimed people were deliberately trying to sow division in the Progressive Labour Party. David Burt, who faces a challenge to his leadership at the delegates conference...

Now is not the time for the island to consider independence, said a former premier who asked the public to vote on the issue more than 25 years ago. Sir John Swan resigned as leader of the United Bermuda Party after over 73 per cent of people who tur...