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New taxes could be in the pipeline for the 2019-20 Budget, the Minister of Finance said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said in his pre-Budget report that possible taxes included one on homes where the main function was for rental to tourists or to empl...

Opportunities in Bermuda will be promoted to global business leaders in Europe next week. David Burt, the Premier, will lead a team of three to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. He said he was the only head of a...

Changes to improve the island’s immigration laws could be on the law books by the end of July, the national security minister signalled yesterday. Wayne Caines said the latest report by the bipartisan Immigration Reform Group was submitted to him las...

A British attempt to force overseas territories to produce public registers of beneficial company ownership has sparked a war of words in the UK’s House of Commons. Dame Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP who helped to lead a cross-party alliance of MPs tha...

An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions. Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...

Curtis Dickinson has accused Nick Kempe of playing “political football” as the Government works to protect the international business sector. Mr Kempe, the Shadow Minister of Finance, questioned what the Government had done to ensure companies expand...

A total of 161 applicants based in Bermuda have applied for 27 jobs listed on a careers site for financial technology firm Bitcarbon, the company’s founder and chief executive said last night. Cormac Kinney, an American entrepreneur and software desi...

The Government has to get its accounts in order after “significant arrears” were found in financial statements covering a seven-year period, the Auditor-General said in a hard-hitting report released yesterday Heather Thomas said that 34 government o...

Opportunities existed for Bermuda despite tough new rules designed to crack down on international business, senators said yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said that although Bermuda was at the “top en...

Six further members of watchdog groups to scrutinise public spending were announced in the Senate yesterday. Members of the Upper House will join MPs in three parliamentary oversight committees to hold ministers and their departments to account in an...