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An all-out attack on Government's record on Tourism is set to launch today's Opposition assault on last week's Budget. And a swing at increases in Payroll Tax and Land Tax is also certain to figure as Shadow Grant Gibbons starts the full debate on th...

Any attempts to legalise marijuana should be stubbed out, Shadow Health and Social Services Minister Kim Young said yesterday. And she blasted Government Senator Calvin Smith for suggesting that marijuana use was acceptable to increasing numbers -- a...

civil investigations. The move would bring the Island into line with other English-speaking jurisdictions in the Caribbean/Atlantic area, most of whom already have similar arrangements. And Financial Secretary Peter Hardy said the new deal would unde...

New monitoring of racial make-up of the workforce and tougher rules on work permits could be "a suicide note'' for Bermuda's booming offshore economy, Opposition Senate leader Maxwell Burgess warned yesterday. And he said increases in Land Tax would ...

Attorney General Dame Lois Browne Evans is to second guess the public prosecution service over the legality of controversial pyramid schemes, Opposition Legislative Affairs spokesman John Barritt has claimed. He questioned why -- when the Director of...

Further tax breaks for struggling shops and restaurants have not been ruled out by Finance Minister Eugene Cox. And he told a Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday that he was prepared to listen to the concerns of the retail and restaurant trades -- ...

hailed a success. But by late last week, details of the two-day seminar run by Commonwealth Secretariat experts were thin on the ground. A press release from Cabinet Office said: "The Premier said the retreat provided the perfect setting for Minister...

Minister Grant Gibbons warned yesterday. And he singled out a 50 percent increase in spending on building projects -- up to more than $90 million -- as well as $28 million in new borrowing as danger signals for the future. Dr. Gibbons added that comp...

The first full PLP Budget -- and the first of the new millennium -- came and went quietly. Finance Minister Eugene Cox -- dressed suitably conservatively in a dark blue suit, blue shirt and tie patterned with adding machines, calculators, paper and p...

Angry shopkeepers yesterday blasted the Budget as too little -- and maybe too late -- to save some struggling retailers. Ian Smith, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce retail division, said: "The chamber is disappointed at the level of relief given t...