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Work permit costs could be hiked as part of a move to encourage greater Bermudian employment, the One Bermuda Alliance proposed yesterday. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the shadow finance minister, added that an OBA government would lay the groundwork for...

An increase in work permit fees and a decrease in payroll tax could help Bermudians get into the workforce, the shadow finance minister said. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the Shadow Minister of Finance, told The Royal Gazette this afternoon that other ju...

TN Tatem Middle School is not in need of demolition because of mould, the House of Assembly heard today. Boxer Nikki Bascome is running a boxing gym in one of the mould-free buildings, while other licensed activities include a cooking class. Lieutena...

Young people who get too old for the island’s care system could soon be supported by a halfway house to help them deal with the move into adulthood. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs: “In the 2020-21 year, a transitional living regi...

The decades-old 60:40 rule designed to guarantee Bermudian majority ownership of companies is to be axed and no new taxes will be imposed. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said in his Budget Statement that the 60:40 numbers would be reverse...

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...