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Government spending will top the $1 billion mark in the next financial year, the Minister of Finance revealed yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that estimated revenue for the year was $998.8 million and that a Budget deficit of $124.5 million would be...

The Government’s plans for economic recovery over the in the new financial year were branded “aspirational and low on detail” by the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday. Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition, said Bermuda’s debt combined with pension ...

The maintenance of school buildings must get better, the shadow education minister said yesterday. Ben Smith warned that renovated schools would deteriorate fast if work was neglected. Mr Smith said: “We have a lot of buildings that are old – it’s ab...

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...