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Public Accounts Committee chairman Bob Richards has pledged to call witnesses and hold open meetings to get to the bottom of the Auditor General’s findings on the misuse of taxpayer dollars. The Shadow Finance Minister said yesterday the meetings wou...

Pastor Leroy Bean will definitely be the Progressive Labour Party’s election candidate for St George’s South, according to the branch chairman for constituency four. Stuart Hollis told The Royal Gazette the fact that Mr Bean was paid almost $86,000 i...

Opposition leader Craig Cannonier has questioned why Premier Paula Cox failed to tell taxpayers about problems at Bermuda Land Development Company when she was alerted to them more than a year ago. The Auditor General’s Special Report on the Misuse o...

The Bermuda Land Development Company rarely hits the headlines. In fact, most taxpayers could be forgiven for knowing little about its existence, so seldom are they told anything about it. The quango’s website, www.bldc.com, features limited informat...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews spent months trying to discover who in Government signed off on payments to fund a private legal action for two Cabinet Ministers. But she was unable to find out the answer, along with other details about the c...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews has questioned the “tone at the top” of Government after uncovering two instances of the misuse of public funds and being refused information to fully investigate them. Mrs Matthews revealed in a scathing repor...

In early 2010, when the Bermuda Land Development Company’s board approved the payment of consultancy fees to chairman Edward Saunders and deputy chairman Pastor Leroy Bean, an approximate figure of $14,000 each was settled upon. The two men were to c...

British Labour peer John Prescott has raised concerns in the House of Lords about Cunard registering its ships on Bermuda’s Register of Shipping. The British cruise line switched its ships’ registration from the UK to Bermuda in October to benefit fr...

Seniors who have an interest in a property will be eligible for financial aid from Government under a proposed change to the law. Youth, Families and Sport Minister Glenn Blakeney told a meeting last night that “amendments to certain pieces of legisl...

National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief has been on a fact-finding mission to Boston to learn more about Operation Ceasefire and other initiatives aimed at tackling gangs and gun violence. He was there to meet with representatives from Ceasefire,...