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Government backbencher Wayne Perinchief yesterday said a payroll tax increase unfairly punishes blue collar workers already feeling the pinch from the economic crisis. And both opposition parties complained workers are now being penalised for Governm...

Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday raised payroll tax to 16 percent — up from 14 percent — as she attempted to get to grips with the economic crisis with a $1.2 billion Budget. Critics said the working poor are being unfairly punished for Governmen...

Finance Minister Paula Cox last night pledged a fair and sensitive Budget — but warned not everybody will get what they're hoping for. "The better policies are those where no one gets all that they might wish," Ms Cox told The Royal Gazette on the ev...

Finance Minister Paula Cox will today present Bermuda's toughest Budget in many years — but critics hope her answer is not to raise taxes. Leading businessman Peter Everson said hospitality, retail and construction industries all need help simply to ...

Funds may be tighter now than at any time in recent memory, but many are hoping Finance Minister Paula Cox still manages to divert cash towards tackling the Island's escalating social problems. Rehabilitation programmes for prisoners, projects creati...

New Bermuda Democratic Alliance deputy leader Kathy Michelmore says she can bring a much-needed woman's perspective to the Island's political sphere. Dr. Michelmore yesterday said few women break through in the Westminster system — with just seven fe...

Bermuda Democratic Alliance promised to do things differently — and with a leader who can't stand party politics it's sticking to its words. Craig Cannonier has even banned the BDA's members from using the word "party" as he pushes for a new kind of ...

Bermuda Democratic Alliance supports the outlawing of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, new leader Craig Cannonier revealed yesterday. Mr. Cannonier told The Royal Gazette his party believes the Human Rights Act should be amended t...

New Bermuda Democratic Alliance deputy leader Kathy Michelmore says she can bring a much-needed woman's perspective to the Island's political sphere. Dr. Michelmore yesterday said few women break through in the Westminster system — with just seven fe...

Premier Ewart Brown yesterday declined to comment on the Police investigation into his Ministry's controversial faith-based tourism initiative. The Premier has vigorously denied any wrongdoing in the project — run by his former close political collea...