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Cash will be invested in information technology to boost government efficiency, the finance minister pledged yesterday. Curtis Dickinson made several references to the need for more effective ways of working in his Budget speech. He told the House of...

The Government plans to spend $19.8 million more than it takes in over the next 12 months, which will push the country’s total debt to almost $2.68 billion. Interest payments will amount to $121.4 million in the 2020-21 financial year, about $332,600...

David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities. More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...

Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed. Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”. The senior economics lecturer at Ber...

A Bill promoting Bermuda as a “landing hub for transatlantic submarine cables” carrying internet and telecommunications has won approval from both parties in the House of Assembly. Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Friday that the “one-stop s...

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...

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 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...