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Ryan Robinson Perinchief has become the first Bermudian to be nominated for the Commonwealth Youth Awards for development work in the community. Mr Perinchief, who runs the Future Leaders Bermuda programme for Bermuda’s youth, is one of four regional...

More adults can learn how to help prevent child sexual abuse in Bermuda thanks to a five-figure donation to charity. Saving Children And Revealing Secrets received $10,000 from the Argo Foundation after representatives explained the value of its work...

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...

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...

Teachers have backed a vote of no confidence in the Commissioner of Education and the Ministry of Education’s top civil servant. A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that members had “overwhelmingly” agreed on the action against Kalma...

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...