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A government brochure full of policy information that was already publicly available was deemed by the Opposition to be “propaganda”. Doug DeCouto, a One Bermuda Alliance senator, added that public funds should not be spent on producing political adv...

A new senator went on the attack as he delivered his maiden speech in the Upper House yesterday. Douglas De Couto, of the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance, said that minor reductions in taxes were “trinkets” handed out by the Government to distract f...

The Premier is a “slippery-tongued” deceiver who has hiked payroll tax, the Opposition leader told the House of Assembly yesterday. Cole Simons accused David Burt, also the finance minister, of deliberately misleading the public. He said: “The Minis...

Reduced electricity bills could be in the pipeline if government revenue and expenditure pan out as predicted this year. The pledge was one of several relief measures promised by David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, during yesterday’s Budget...

A balanced Budget has been pushed back a year to 2024-25, the Premier said last night. David Burt, who is now also the Minister of Finance, explained that the postponement was needed to let the Government implement its economic recovery plan and fund...

The Throne Speech, under the title of “Social Renewal and Economic Recovery”, opened with the Governor’s reflection on the “definitive”, once-in-an-era change brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rena Lalgie told the gathering: “The wounds inflicted by ...

With the Throne Speech scheduled for tomorrow, we look back at what happened to the pledges made in last year’s legislative blueprint - which was shorter than usual because of the Covid-19 emergency. Of 22 key pledges made last year, nearly half, 10,...

A global agreement on minimum corporate tax rates has approved an exclusion for the island’s international insurance industry. Curtis Dickinson, the minister of finance welcomed the carve-out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developm...

The One Bermuda Alliance has called for more support for Bermuda’s farmers and fishermen and for funding for school repairs or renewable energy schemes which would make Bermuda more self-sufficient and create jobs. Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opp...

A “wholesale review”of Bermuda’s tax system will be completed by the end of the year after legislation was passed in the Senate yesterday. The Tax Reform Commission Amendment Act 2020 – which will enable the Minister of Finance to set up the commissi...