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Sylvan Richards’ trip to the Rio Olympics cost the taxpayer a little over $31,000, it has been revealed. Details of the sports minister’s nine-day trip to Brazil to represent the Government at the Olympic Games were posted on the One Bermuda Alliance...

A proposed levy dubbed the general services tax will not come into effect for the next fiscal year starting April 2017, according to Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance. While he was not prepared to divulge new details on the 5 per cent charge put ...

Independence from Britain might be feasible, should the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union jeopardise Bermuda’s business interests, said finance minister Bob Richards. “We still don’t know which way is up,” Mr Richards cautioned of Brexit — the ...

Cabinet is looking at a range of options put forward by a government steering committee to establish a secure forensic psychiatric unit in Bermuda. Senator Jeff Baron revealed that the committee had been tasked with devising a business case for both ...

Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the Minister of Home Affairs, has stuck to her guns amid charges that Government is bent on denying the Reverend Nicholas Tweed the right to work in Bermuda. Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has repea...

Pope Francis has been invited to visit Bermuda by Michael Dunkley. The invitation was extended yesterday when the Premier attended a General Audience with the pontiff at the Vatican, pointing out that Bermuda had a large Catholic population. During h...

Accusations of politically motivated obstruction over the Rev Nicholas Tweed’s work permit continued yesterday from Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union. Mr Furbert confirmed he had been speaking of Mr Tweed on Labour Day, in whic...

Home affairs minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has defended her right to access immigration files following allegations made by union leader Chris Furbert. During yesterday’s Labour Day speech, Bermuda Industrial Union president Mr Furbert claimed som...

Junior Maynard Dill, a devoted unionist and chairman of the Progressive Labour Party who was quietly charitable throughout the island, has died at the age of 61. Mr Dill’s sudden passing on Saturday shocked the community on the eve of Labour Day — an...

Bermuda has become the first British Overseas Territory to initiate direct talks with the UK over the impact of its withdrawal from the European Union. Along with discussing the repercussions of the June “Brexit” referendum, Michael Dunkley’s two day...