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Curtis Dickinson has insisted that he wants to work with David Burt in government if he topples him in the looming Progressive Labour Party leadership fight. With the two former Cabinet colleagues going head-to-head in the contest’s first debate toni...

The number of visitors arriving in Bermuda will be just over half the figure seen in 2019, Vance Campbell, the tourism minister, said yesterday. He told MPs that while the projected tally for the year was 56 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, the indus...

Public school teachers were to blame for not getting paid for September because they did not provide paperwork in time, Diallo Rabain, the education minister, told MPs yesterday. Mr Rabain said they would get their salaries at the end of this week, ...

Moves to stop hospitality staff having to hand over payroll tax on their tips have been passed by MPs. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, said the change was needed to cover tips generated by a service charge on customer bills. The minister ...

More than $21 million is to be spent renovating older homes to increase the amount of affordable housing, MPs were told yesterday. Delivering a statement to MPs, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said that the Cabinet had ...

A final sign-off on the long-awaited deal to secure the $376 million Fairmont Southampton revamp appears imminent, David Burt, the Premier, said yesterday. Mr Burt has made similar statements on at least two occasions since April, but blamed delays o...

Help for first-time buyers and tidying-up payroll tax anomalies will be gone over by MPs in the final House of Assembly session before November’s Throne Speech. David Burt, the Premier, said The Payroll Tax Amendment Act clarified aspects of the tax ...

One Bermuda Alliance deputy leader Jarion Richardson has warned that the island is in danger of becoming a one-party state. The former police officer insisted his party was still relevant and that the OBA name did not stand for “Only Barely Alive”. H...

The Progressive Labour Party has moved to quash allegations that the Premier asked MPs to sign an agreement not to challenge him on policy decisions. The allegations were made on social-media outlets, claiming that a Memorandum of Understanding effec...

The Premier, David Burt, gave a briefing today, giving an update on Gencom, the TA form and economic relief. He said the deal with Gencom and the Southampton Princess was almost done, that once the TA form ends at the end of November there will be no...