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Higher than expected Government revenues this year have been overtaken by pandemic-related expenses, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told the House that estimated revenues for the year would be $8 mil...

More than $6 million was paid in consultancy fees to four professional services firms over 19 months, MPs were told yesterday. But Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said more than 60 per cent of the cash went to EY under an order from the court...

A cab driver who led the Bermuda Taxi Operators Association was also a keen veteran of the annual Marathon Derby as well as a race organiser. Lee Tucker, who started running in 1944 and went on to train and manage competitive runners, was a member of...

A total of 56 recommendations were made under six headings in a report by the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses. The panel, headed by retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller, examined alleged land losses said to have happened “through th...

Bermuda joined the rest of the world today to celebrate Human Rights Day. The event at City Hall in Hamilton, organised by the Human Rights Commission, Social Justice Bermuda, Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda and Imagine Bermuda, highlighted the ...

A new fleet of electric buses will cost less than half the price of older diesel vehicles, the transport minister told the House of Assembly yesterday morning. Lawrence Scott said 30 buses, built by the Golden Dragon Bus Company in China at a cost of...

A section of Middle Road in Warwick was to be closed last night and later restricted to one lane to allow road-widening work to be carried out. The Ministry of Public Works announced that the first phase of the work, east of Burnt House Hill, will in...

The House of Assembly was updated yesterday morning on key meetings to keep the island off the European Union’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, briefed MPs on meetings held in London and Brussels. Mr...

A Bill designed to strengthen Bermuda’s human rights laws and promote equality was yesterday tabled in the House of Assembly by the One Bermuda Alliance. The proposed legislation would create an Equality Council at the Human Rights Commission which ...

One more case of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been isolated, health officials said last night. The infection was found in a person who arrived on the island from overseas. There have now been two confirmed Omicron cases on the islan...