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Bermuda should expect a deficit of more than $30 million in the next financial year, an economist has warned. Finance minister Curtis Dickinson announced in last Friday’s Budget Statement that the Government planned to spend $19.8 million more than i...

A former board chairman at two public schools has defended Bermuda’s education system after economists claimed it had failed children for decades. Leonard Santucci said he feared that Peter Everson and Robert Stewart did not carry out an “objective a...

Pupils at a primary school celebrated island heroes as part of Black History Month yesterday. Youngsters at Northlands Primary in Pembroke were taught about football and cricket legend Calvin “Bummy” Symonds, a former pupil. They also learnt about Ma...

More young people have a chance to enrol in a study course in the United States. A limited number of positions have been made available for Bermuda students to attend the Global Young Leaders Programme in Atlanta this summer — a three-week course des...

The achievements of black Bermudians will be highlighted for Black History Month at Paget Primary School, which is transforming its classrooms into a museum on Thursday. The school’s third annual Black History Museum will honour Bermudian figures liv...

Women who made bold, life-changing decisions will talk about their experiences this weekend to help other people reinvent themselves. Keema Perry and Jennifer Outerbridge-Smith said the event on Saturday would help guests think about what differences...

Young people who get too old for the island’s care system could soon be supported by a halfway house to help them deal with the move into adulthood. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs: “In the 2020-21 year, a transitional living regi...

The decades-old 60:40 rule designed to guarantee Bermudian majority ownership of companies is to be axed and no new taxes will be imposed. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said in his Budget Statement that the 60:40 numbers would be reverse...

Cash will be invested in information technology to boost government efficiency, the finance minister pledged yesterday. Curtis Dickinson made several references to the need for more effective ways of working in his Budget speech. He told the House of...

The Government plans to spend $19.8 million more than it takes in over the next 12 months, which will push the country’s total debt to almost $2.68 billion. Interest payments will amount to $121.4 million in the 2020-21 financial year, about $332,600...