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Additional expenditure relating to Y2K totalling $201,000 was needed to replace a non-compliant fire alarm system at the Ministry of Health and a telephone system at all Prison facilities. Design fees and development costs for dock facilities for the...

many ways won it the 1998 Election -- comes through very clearly in yesterday's Budget. There is nothing wrong with that. Focused spending on education is an investment in Bermuda's long term future, especially as the Island moves into the "new econo...

Government intends to spend $71 million, over three years, to build a new Berkeley Institute in a move to complete "unfinished business''. This adds one year to previous commitments, but came as welcome news to the man who heads the school's board of...

Angry shopkeepers yesterday blasted the Budget as too little -- and maybe too late -- to save some struggling retailers. Ian Smith, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce retail division, said: "The chamber is disappointed at the level of relief given t...

squads -- senior and under-23 -- as they headed for Florida for World Cup and Olympic warm-up matches, talk instead turned to what has become football's modern day scourge -- drugs. Shadow Education Minister Tim Smith claimed that certain sports club...

Tax breaks for shopkeepers and a bigger investment in education and training are on the cards for today's Budget, The Royal Gazette has learned. And -- despite calls from Finance Minister Eugene Cox for belt-tightening -- the Police service could als...

Budget since the party took power in November, 1998. Finance Minister Eugene Cox's February, 1999 Statement was a hybrid effort because the new Government had only four months to work on the Budget and much of the groundwork had been laid before the ...

International business leaders yesterday called for no extra taxes on the Island's biggest economic sector in today's Budget. And one warned the Island could start losing offshore enterprise if the cost of trading from Bermuda increased. And the man ...

Shadow Education Minister Tim Smith came under fire from the Island's two biggest sports bodies and their affiliates yesterday. The Bermuda Cricket Board of Control and the Bermuda Football Association demanded a full apology from the former Youth an...

art collection, and now it is joining forces with one of its teachers, well-known local artist Sharon Wilson to get the project rolling. "We have many Bermudian artists who are creative at the College, and we felt this should be the place to develop ...