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owners of luxury homes was yesterday blasted. And the Opposition and business interests combined to warn that the price increases could spell the death knell for businesses already struggling with declining tourism figures. Shadow Finance Minister Gr...

e-commerce world capital will be tabled in the House of Assembly today. Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb -- also in charge of e-commerce -- will bring the bill to MPs. The bill -- one of the first in the world -- will make electronic transactio...

Sneaky sailors could be conning Government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in taxes by cruising through a loophole in the law, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Pleasure boat owners are buying commercial fishing licences which allow them t...

to pull in nearly $7 million in charges, it was revealed yesterday. And home owners in the most popular areas will likely find themselves harder hit under the new evaluation. But 75 percent of land tax payers will pay less -- and a three-pronged appr...

Lawyer Charles-Etta Simmons yesterday became the first Bermuda-born woman to sit full-time as a Supreme Court judge. Supreme Court Registrar Ms Simmons, together with Crown counsel Philip Storr, was sworn in for a year by Governor Thorold Masefield a...

A $85,000 cash boost for the Premier's personal office will go towards a massive UK review of the civil service. The news squashed speculation by the Opposition United Bermuda Party that that the extra money was earmarked for Cabinet Ministers' trave...

said last night. And she added Bermudians might be prepared to give up the noose for murderers -- if a tough penalty like life without parole was adopted instead. Ms Gordon said early canvassing after Britain's rewrite of relations with its overseas ...

Senators could be asked today to approve a special committee set up to create a register of interests for Parliamentarians. Independent Sen. Walwyn Hughes may bring a motion asking the Upper House to formally back Senators' participation in the Joint...

Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon last night challenged Government to go for a non-party approach in dealing with the UK's new deal for the colonies -- and full consultation with the UBP. She said: "This issue for Bermuda is greater than the PLP or the...

Bermuda's battle to get the US armed services to foot the bill for a massive $65 million clean-up of its old bases came under the spotlight at an environmental conference in the UK yesterday. And Permanent Secretary of the Environment Brian Rowlinson...