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A bigger selection of sweet treats will be taxed at 75 per cent when the Government launches the next phase of its assault on sugar. The rate of duty on items already affected is 50 per cent, with the additional 25 per cent due to be implemented from...

Home-grown musicians have a better chance of taking centre stage after tax breaks for venues that hire Bermudian artists were announced in yesterday’s Budget. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said he wanted to boost the number of bookings for ...

The Budget showed the Government had listened to hoteliers’ fears over rising land taxes, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday. Stephen Todd, CEO of the BHA, said hoteliers were pleased that Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, confirmed t...

Community workers want to know more about government funding of crime-fighting programmes, an activist said yesterday. Desmond Crockwell, chief editor of anti-violence magazine Visionz, said people involved in intervention programmes would like to kn...

A $300,000 grant to help poorer students study at Bermuda College will continue into the next fiscal year. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said the Paget college was “a key stakeholder in the economic growth and development of our island”...

Almost half-a-million dollars will go towards the introduction of a new pupil grading system, the finance minister announced yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that $473,000 would be used “to continue the implementation of a standards-based grading sys...

The Bermuda Government is to suspend payments into the sinking fund, a home for money set aside to pay down long-term debt. In his maiden Budget Statement yesterday, Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said it did not make financial sense to b...

A move to set up a government-backed mortgage lender is a “wantonly unfair” use of public money, the shadow finance minister said yesterday. Nick Kempe also warned that the Progressive Labour Party’s plan to lend cash to public service employees was ...

The new bus schedule for 2019, which was postponed two times last month, is to come into force. The bus operators have now accepted a revised roster and agreed to implement the schedule. It was put on hold after staff raised concerns about rosters an...

Bus service will be on hold for two hours tomorrow to accommodate a union meeting. Bermuda Industrial Union bus operators will meet with the Allied Workers Division to discuss completion of the new winter public bus schedule and revised work rosters....