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Members of Parliament are scheduled to the House of Assembly today to continue the Budget debate. MPs are expected to focus on the Department of Regulatory Affairs and the Department of Transport. The House of Assembly will also tackle the Proceeds o...

St George’s residents were told a Government announcement about the introduction of a new bus schedule could come this week. During the meeting, held on Tuesday night to discuss Government’s plan to change the municipalities into quangos, several mem...

A proposed tax on rental income could cost people their homes, the finance minister has been warned. Curtis Dickinson was told that any new tax would hurt people who depended on income from an apartment to pay their mortgages. Paulette Robinson said:...

Advanced polls for a special election in St George’s will take place on Thursday, while the full election will be held next week. All registered municipal residents are able to vote in the election, which is needed to fill the vacant town councillor ...

Changes to improve the island’s immigration laws could be on the law books by the end of July, the national security minister signalled yesterday. Wayne Caines said the latest report by the bipartisan Immigration Reform Group was submitted to him las...

Curtis Dickinson has accused Nick Kempe of playing “political football” as the Government works to protect the international business sector. Mr Kempe, the Shadow Minister of Finance, questioned what the Government had done to ensure companies expand...

Amendments to increase pension payments are to be debated in the House of Assembly today. The Contributory Pensions (Amendment of Benefits) Order 2018 was designed to increase benefits in line with a rise in the cost of living. The amendments will in...

Loan sharks have worsened the problems of people in financial difficulty, the House of Assembly heard. Wayne Furbert, the junior finance minister, said he knew of cases where $10,000 loans become $66,000 debts in just a year, and that action was need...

The Centre Against Abuse has praised legislation that ensures the monitoring of sex offenders after their release from prison. However, the charity said she hoped there would be a provision to notify victims of any appeals, probations or parole heari...

The Government is spending $168,400 a year to maintain a failed affordable housing development, in Warwick, the Senate heard on Wednesday. Vance Campbell, the junior public works minister, confirmed the figure. He added that a plan to turn the Grand ...