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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...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority was “ready to learn more details” of government intentions on its future, the body’s chief executive said yesterday. Kevin Dallas was speaking after the Budget Statement was delivered in the House of Assembly by Curtis D...

Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance delivering the Budget for 2020-21 at the House of Assembly today. Here are the highlights from his speech: • Programmes in the Department of Child and Family Services will receive an increase of $750,000. Som...

Independent MPs are needed more than ever to break Bermuda’s two-party political deadlock, a former campaign adviser has warned. Jen Pedro, who worked on independent candidate Christina Storey’s bid for the House of Assembly in the 2017 General Elect...

The Governor John Rankin, along with the Deputy Governor Alison Crocket, was today pleased to receive at Government House the Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, Premier of the Turks & Caicos Islands, along with members of her Government. The deleg...

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...