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February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history Benjamin Banneker, free black, farmer, mathematician, and astronome...

Business confidence has grown over the past few months, a major survey has shown. And Bermuda-only businesses outstripped their international counterparts in the optimism stakes. Local business hit 105.9 in the second survey of last year, up 5.3 poin...

Two big challenges to sustainable growth are debt — and, by implication, debt service — and rising inequality. This year’s Budget deals with both head-on. To the first of these challenges, Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has made laudable pr...

Berkeley Institute principal Phyllis Curtis-Tweed is set to resign at the end of the academic year, the school’s governing body said. According to a statement, she made the decision to resign in order to pursue another professional opportunity. Dr Cu...

Bob Richards issued a stark warning on the importance of tackling the island’s debt and added that a casual attitude towards extra borrowing would be “irresponsible and dangerous”. The finance minister made the comments in his annual Budget statement...

Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that while Bermuda’s public education system is going to need a lot more than a $2 million budget boost to bring it up to par, he was encouraged that funds for the department ...

Lower-paid workers will get payroll tax cuts over two years, while big earners will be forced to dig deeper into their pockets. Delivering a 2017-18 Budget yesterday aiming to spread the tax burden more fairly, finance minister Bob Richards also anno...

A lack of cuts in spending to the Civil Service in this year’s Budget has proven a bone of contention for the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, with president John Wight asking where was the shared sacrifice. In a statement released last evening, Mr Wigh...

HSBC Bank Bermuda Ltd booked net profits of $117 million last year — up more than a third on 2015. A fall in loan impairment provisions and lower operating expenses after the sale of private banking operations last year contributed to the increase. M...

February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history Prairie View A&M University, the first state-supported college in Te...