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Government plans to turn an eye on the sky in an attempt to establish a satellite services industry on the Island. Finance Minister Paula Cox spelled out the proposal to build an ?earth station? ? a facility normally fitted with at least one large di...

The public coffers have once more been filled with tens of millions of dollars more than expected ? thanks to the Island?s booming economy. For the fifth Budget in succession, the Finance Minister reported that Government was raking in far more reven...

25 The number of deportations last year, compared to 14 in 2005 8,666 Average number of visitors to the beach per week, between May and October. $5,700 The average cost of mowing school grounds every month 15,532 Number of reference questions answere...

Some might have expected a sweetheart Budget as Government goes into the final lap before the election. But perhaps finally tiring of bribing the people with their own money, the PLP has decided to hand out something else ? words. Lots of them. Pages...

Increased Government spending could ?add fuel to the fire? of Bermuda?s overheating economy, according to economist and Bermuda College lecturer Craig Simmons. Mr. Simmons said rising inflation rates and decreasing levels of Bermudian employment over...

High earners will see more tax lopped from their pay cheques from this spring, Finance Minister Paula Cox announced yesterday. Anyone with a top line of more than $235,000 will feel the pinch of a salary cap increase in payroll tax for the coming fin...

Plane loads of visitors from Germany and Italy are expected to begin touching down in Bermuda as early as this summer as the Island looks to Europe to build its hotel-stay tourism sector. And construction of a second pier at Dockyard to handle anothe...

Union officials are calling for swift action to rebuild King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after nearly $140 million was allocated to the Ministry of Health in yesterday?s budget. That cash includes a grant to Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) to carry ou...

Government yesterday repeated its pledge to tackle the affordable homes shortage by insisting hundreds of houses would be built in the next year. However, campaigners argued the crisis could only be eased by a ?paradigm shift? in the mindset of the p...

Shadow Minister for Finance Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last night claimed the Government was overspending and was still failing to deal with the biggest crisis on the Island ? housing. Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin was responding to the Budget set out by Finance ...