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The finance minister yesterday insisted that price controls were unlikely to be introduced to combat inflation. Curtis Dickinson said that the Covid pandemic would continue to hit the economy, but that he did not expect next year’s Budget to be a “ha...

Green campaigners have hit out at a “conflict of interest” over a controversial Government deal with an energy firm to bring tidal power to Bermuda. The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce said the contract with Seabased to develop a wave...

Mike Sharpe has left “big shoes behind on the track” the Senate heard as the Upper House paid tribute to the Olympian and veteran broadcaster. Senators praised Mr Sharpe for his contribution to Bermuda following the announcement of his death, aged 65...

Bermudians will have to wait until next year’s Budget to see if changes to tariff regulations will have financial implications, the Senate was told yesterday. Adrianna Hodgson, junior finance minister, said amendments to laws bringing the island into...

The championing of a single company to bring tidal power energy to Bermuda has been questioned by the Opposition. Scott Pearman, the shadow home affairs minister, said he would raise the One Bermuda Alliance’s concerns about the Government’s deal wit...

A report into alleged historic land grabs and a revised Budget statement will dominate the House of Assembly’s final session of the year today. It is understood that the Commission of Inquiry, which held its last hearings in May, completed the report...

The Speaker of the House of Assembly has signalled to MPs that any one of them could ask for an inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Dennis Lister insisted he had to stay neutral, but that a member from either side of the House could pu...

An organisational revamp of the Bermuda National Trust was yesterday backed by the Senate. The legislation, which increased the number of people to be elected to the trust’s council to 13 and ended appointment to the council by entitlement, was passe...

The Mayor of Hamilton, Charles Gosling, said yesterday that he will not run for re-election. The announcement comes as the corporation is locked in a legal battle with the Government for its survival. Mr Gosling, 68, told The Royal Gazette: “Sometime...

Any top level parliamentary inquiry into how Bermuda has coped with the Covid-19 crisis must be non-party political, the Opposition has insisted. The comments come in the wake of David Burt, the Premier, saying a committee of lawmakers would be best ...