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The Civil Service must be cut after the coming fiscal year, Finance Minister Bob Richards warned as he outlined the advantages of mutualisation or privatisation. Staff lay-offs will be inevitable unless “non-core functions” are outsourced after 2014/...

Soaring healthcare costs threaten to bankrupt Government unless the One Bermuda Alliance can put the brakes on “a runaway fast car”, Finance Minister Bob Richards said today. The Minister warned an ageing population is putting increasing demands on h...

The days of the 60/40 ownership rule appear numbered after Finance Minister Bob Richards declared it was blocking foreign investment which could restore Bermuda to prosperity. In his Budget Statement, Mr Richards described the regulation — which guar...

The Progressive Labour Party has a marginal lead over the One Bermuda Alliance, according to a new poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. And Opposition Leader Marc Bean enjoys a ten point lead over Premier Craig Cannonier in the survey carried out ...

Three out of four voters believe the business community is not sacrificing enough during the economic crisis. According to a poll by Mindmaps, 76 percent of people do not think business is “doing all it can to share sacrifices” in the recession. Just...

Two-thirds of voters want to cut Cabinet from 13 to eight Ministers, according to a new poll. Sixty-seven percent of people want Government to take up the SAGE Commission’s recommendation to reduce Cabinet by five, with 26 percent preferring the curr...

The days of conscription appear numbered after the One Bermuda Alliance made a Throne Speech pledge to eliminate it during this legislative session. But the OBA was accused of delaying the issue by blocking the Progressive Labour Party’s ‘Abolition o...

Relief from soaring food and electricity prices headed the promises in the One Bermuda Alliance's Throne Speech today.And two of the Island's most contentious topics — gambling and marijuana use — will take centre stage in the coming weeks as Governm...

The Progressive Labour Party today hit out at the One Bermuda Alliance for “blocking” its attempt to abolish conscription. The Opposition party attempted to table the Abolition of Conscription Act, shortly after the delivery of the Throne Speech, in ...