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National security minister Wayne Caines updated MPs with a ministerial statement about Bermuda’s first coastguard unit, which was launched in the West End earlier this month. • To read Wayne Caines’s ministerial statement in full, click on the PDF un...

Heritage Month will have the theme “We are Bermudian” to help the Government promote the island’s cultural identity. Cultural affairs minister Lovitta Foggo urged people to reflect on their commonalities throughout the month of May. She told the Hous...

A new programme in Bermuda’s schools will help children develop their reading skills. Education minister Diallo Rabain said teachers had been trained on the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum, which has been introduced to preschool, P1 and P2 cla...

The Progressive Labour Party has pledged to give the public the chance to help shape its agenda. The party has launched PLP Listens, where the public can suggest policy ideas that can be carried out the second half of its five-year term in government...

The Government must do more to remove barriers to equality, a government backbencher and former trade union leader said yesterday. Jason Hayward told the Progressive Labour Party’s Founders Day lunch that the island’s healthcare system was among the ...

A spotlight will be turned on employers who “steal” from their staff by failing to deposit social insurance and pension contributions, the Minister of Finance warned last night. Curtis Dickinson said he wanted to help workers keep better track of the...

The Government is to boost its capital spending to about $85 million, using revenue such as new cruise ship taxes, to revamp the island’s infrastructure in the 2020-21 fiscal year. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, made the revelation after ...

The sugar tax, imposed on October 1, 2018, collected $5,402,000 by December 1, 2019. The extra duty on sugary foods and drinks, aimed at reducing diabetes and obesity, was raised to 75 per cent in April last year, with the revenue to be used for heal...

New legislation to allow the sharing of data on food prices will help the Progressive Labour Party deliver on its pledge to lower the cost of living, the Minister for the Cabinet Office claimed. Wayne Furbert said the Government would be able to prov...

An Opposition MP fears that the police budget could be cut by $4 million. Ben Smith, the Shadow Minister of National Security, asked yesterday if the island could afford to “slash” spending on law enforcement. He said: “I am greatly concerned by repo...