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the House of Assembly by Finance Minister Grant Gibbons yesterday. To His Honour the Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Thirty years ago, in the Spring of 1968, the first United Bermuda Party Government assumed res...

Berkeley Institute into a senior secondary school. But there was still no word yesterday as to when construction on the Island's designated second senior school will begin. Finance Minister Grant Gibbons in his 1998/99 Budget statement noted that pla...

A woman chose not to defend herself while a man forced oral sex upon her. She told the Supreme Court jury yesterday her former husband threatened to "tie her up'' if she did not "submit to his needs''. The Pembroke Parish man's name cannot be reveale...

Bermuda's Police Service will have more officers on the beat following yesterday's Budget statement. The force will be able to civilianise 15 posts -- freeing trained officers to get back on duty. More than $33 million will be spent on the force, the...

by Finance Minister Grant Gibbons in yesterday's Budget. He told the House of Assembly: "This Government understands that our people are the key asset for economic prosperity in the modern global economy. "Accordingly, most of the expenditure in this...

Increases in the exempted company fee categories will vary from 0.89 percent in the lowest category, which rises from $1,680 to $1,695 per annum, to six percent in the highest category. It should also be noted that the penalty for late payment of the...

percent increase in real terms after adjusting for an annual inflation rate of two percent, according to the latest figures from the Statistics Department. Residents returning from abroad declared purchases valued at $28.81 million, a decline of 0.9 ...

Government has provided its clearest hint yet that it may consider in the coming fiscal year increasing the legislated debt ceiling of $185 million to enable further borrowing. It comes as the most significant review of Bermuda's tax structure in dec...

Mr. Speaker, Government is conscious of the need for a social safety net and has built into its 1998-99 capital spending plan $3.15 million for an adolescent residential care facility and $450,000 for a prison half-way house. A further $215,000 will ...

two-year-old girl receive romantic gifts from an unknown sender. Concerned parents of the toddler contacted Police Community and Juvenile Services when the rose and stuffed toy Dalmatian arrived at their Smith's Parish home -- apparently for their da...