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A “project management team” is to be created to help boost the economy, the finance minister announced yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said during his 2021-22 Budget statement that a list of 30 policy changes and initiatives had been developed to “accele...

The Minister of Finance should cut taxes and fees for businesses to re-energise the economy, it was claimed yesterday. Green-friendly projects, increased support for youth services, and breaks for charities that provide essential services, were other...

Bermuda gained 523 jobs from 2018 to 2019, to a figure of 34,378 working last year. The figures were among the 2020 employment briefs released on Tuesday by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office. The briefs showed job figures climbing, y...

A drama teacher will be centre stage for the Bermuda Union of Teachers for the whole of the new school year. The BUT executive said that Nishanthi Bailey, who teaches at Dellwood Middle School in Pembroke, had become full-time president of the union....

Thousands of Bermudians left jobless by the Covid-19 pandemic will be targeted in a series of back-to-work programmes, the labour minister has vowed. Jason Hayward said a three-pronged strategy of unemployment reduction, prevention of future unemploy...

Teachers voted yesterday to take a 10 per cent salary cut for a year as part of the fightback from the economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Bermuda Union of Teachers and associated staff unanimously backed the move at a special gen...

The island’s white-collar union is to hold a forum for expatriate workers to discuss problems with racism and xenophobia. Jason Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said: “In a recent survey conducted by one of Bermuda’s large...

Boosting the working population with more foreigners would help ease financial pressures on Bermudians, the Opposition claimed yesterday. The One Bermuda Alliance said the island needs an attractive immigration policy and expected to see the controve...

The business world was spared big tax hikes as the Minister of Finance delivered his first Budget yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that the anticipated revenues for the next financial year were about $1.118 billion — $28.6 million or 2.6 per cent hig...

A hush fell on the House of Assembly yesterday as all eyes turned to Curtis Dickinson when he rose to deliver his first Budget. Mr Dickinson, who took the finance portfolio in November 2018, acknowledged the milestone. He told MPs that he represented...