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A team from Bermuda is to hit the European Union with a charm offensive designed to get the country’s name off a blacklist of uncooperative tax jurisdictions. David Burt, the Premier, and Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, will take the lead in ...

Smokers and drinkers will have to pay extra sin taxes, it was revealed on Friday. Wayne Furbert, the junior finance minister, said duty on tobacco, wine, spirits and beer will all be increased. He added that the higher taxes were expected to generate...

A British Parliament committee report that recommended British citizens should vote, gain citizenship and run for office in Bermuda has been rejected unanimously by MPs. David Burt moved a motion in the House of Assembly to reject the report from the...

The next Director of Public Prosecutions should be a black “born Bermudian” the Deputy Speaker of the House has said. Derrick Burgess, of the Progressive Labour Party, said “perpetual racism” had kept white people at the top in Bermuda during the mot...

The home affairs minister has imposed conditions on the sale of power firm Belco, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Ascendant Group, the holding company that owns Belco, announced on January 28 that it was considering the sale of the group with ...

Owain Johnston-Barnes, Sarah Lagan The Senate rejected last night an Act designed to axe the corporations of Hamilton and St George and turn them into unelected quangos. It was the first vote defeat for the Progressive Labour Party since it won power...

A plan for government-backed mortgages risked increasing debt and “driving a wedge between the public and private sectors” an opposition MP said yesterday. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin of the One Bermuda Alliance said that helping Bermudians to acquire pr...

The Corporation of Hamilton asked for a legal order yesterday to stop the Governor approving legislation designed to turn the city authority into an unelected quango. Mark Diel, the lawyer for the Corporation of Hamilton, said the unusual step was ne...

The home affairs minister will today outline the Government’s policy regulations for the sale of power firm Belco in the House of Assembly. Walter Roban’s statement will come less than two months after Ascendant, Belco’s parent company, announced it ...

A demand to find out how much cash raised by the controversial sugar tax had been used to boost health was made yesterday. The One Bermuda Alliance said it wanted details of where the $700,000 in extra cash raised since last year from the tax had gon...