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An association set up to promote the welfare of former and serving soldiers is to celebrate its first anniversary with a recruitment drive. Major Preston Gill, a serving Royal Bermuda Regiment officer and the Royal Bermuda Regiment Association presid...

Government spending will top the $1 billion mark in the next financial year, the Minister of Finance revealed yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that estimated revenue for the year was $998.8 million and that a Budget deficit of $124.5 million would be...

Almost 3,000 jobs were lost last year as the pandemic wreaked economic havoc across Bermuda, Government said yesterday. With the Bermuda economy contracting by an estimated 8.5 per cent, the near Depression scale downturn was thought to have cost 2,9...

A 22-year-old man charged with attempted murder walked free from court yesterday after he was found not guilty by a jury. Zachary Fox said just after the verdict was announced in Supreme Court: “I’m happy to be a free man. That’s all.” Mr Fox was cha...

Government’s net debt has risen to $3 billion, the finance minister revealed yesterday. But Curtis Dickinson said the landmark figure could have been higher had Government not put the brakes on spending after the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Mr Dickinso...

The health minister last night highlighted the need to avoid social events after two more coronavirus cases were detected. One of the cases was a resident who returned to the island on the February 20 American Airlines flight from Miami who tested po...

The Government’s plans for economic recovery over the in the new financial year were branded “aspirational and low on detail” by the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday. Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition, said Bermuda’s debt combined with pension ...

More than 400 'digital nomads' are now in Bermuda, Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister revealed yesterday. Mr Dickinson gave the number as he wrapped up his statement for the 2021-22 Budget yesterday. The one-year residential certificate programme...

Island businesses reacted to the 2021 Budget statement with mixed levels of optimism yesterday. Philip Barnett, the president of Island Restaurant Group, said: “I am feeling exhausted relief from the setting of no new taxes or increases, and the c...

Proposed spending cuts included in the 2021/22 Budget statement could be tough to maintain, an economist warned yesterday. Peter Everson, a businessman and former president of the Chamber of Commerce, said: “The hard part, as always, is will the Gove...