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The budget for the Ministry of Education has been reduced by $2.23 million for the financial year ahead. Projected spending on education for 2016 to 2017 is $124.9 million, less than the forecast for the previous year according to the 2016 budget del...

The message in the Budget with regards to Bermuda’s dwindling population was clear — “we need growth to grow opportunity”. During his Budget speech, Minister of Finance Bob Richards said that the island’s immigration “doctrine” dates back to when Ber...

Junior Minister for Education Leah Scott says the One Bermuda Alliance should consider a “staggered approach” to the granting of Bermudian and permanent resident status in the current climate. The proposal, announced this month, would allow residents...

A special delegates’ conference to determine the leadership of the Progressive Labour Party could be on the cards as the required minimum number of branches have signed up in support. It is also understood that 11 African Methodist Episcopal churches...

The Progressive Labour Party has applauded the Bermuda Government for reversing a tax increase affecting senior landowners, but has questioned whether the initial hike was down to a legislative “error”, as claimed by finance minister Bob Richards. D...

The Corporation of Hamilton has missed the deadline set to pay back the $18 million owed over the failed Par-la-Ville hotel project. However, Charles Gosling, the mayor, said last night that the client now appeared to be “more understanding in terms ...

The Progressive Labour Party has “driven a nail in the coffin” of its General Election hopes, according to elder statesman Reginald Burrows. Mr Burrows, a PLP MP and senator from 1968 to 2005, warned that the split — which has seen seven MPs resign f...

Andrew Simons is the One Bermuda Alliance’s chosen candidate for constituency 13, The Royal Gazette understands. The young politician, who ran for Pembroke Central in 2012 but lost to Walton Brown, has been accepted to run for Devonshire North Centr...

The Bermuda Cadet Corps and the Junior Leaders will be amalgamated and will continue to operate as a company under the Royal Bermuda Regiment. A Bill was passed in the House of Assembly to repeal and re-enact the Bermuda Cadet Corps Act 1944, with am...

Bermuda has to work hard to create a more “welcoming and progressive society” to attract the brightest Bermudians back to the Island. This is the view of Andrew Simons who was yesterday confirmed as the One Bermuda Alliance’s candidate for constituen...