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Bakeries and other small food producers will get special consideration when the sugar tax comes into effect next month. Government senator Anthony Richardson told the Upper House yesterday that there will be a 5 per cent concession rate on sugar for ...

The Mayor of Hamilton offered a compromise power-sharing deal to the Government yesterday to try to halt a move to abolish the two local authorities. Charles Gosling suggested a joint committee to decide the future governance of the areas in the wake...

The Land Tax Amendment Act was passed in the Senate on Friday. The legislation will come into effect on July 1, 2019, and will see properties charged taxes based on the annual rental value. All properties will be charged a base rate of $300 under th...

A team from Bermuda is to hit the European Union with a charm offensive designed to get the country’s name off a blacklist of uncooperative tax jurisdictions. David Burt, the Premier, and Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, will take the lead in ...

Smokers and drinkers will have to pay extra sin taxes, it was revealed on Friday. Wayne Furbert, the junior finance minister, said duty on tobacco, wine, spirits and beer will all be increased. He added that the higher taxes were expected to generate...

A British Parliament committee report that recommended British citizens should vote, gain citizenship and run for office in Bermuda has been rejected unanimously by MPs. David Burt moved a motion in the House of Assembly to reject the report from the...

The next Director of Public Prosecutions should be a black “born Bermudian” the Deputy Speaker of the House has said. Derrick Burgess, of the Progressive Labour Party, said “perpetual racism” had kept white people at the top in Bermuda during the mot...

The home affairs minister has imposed conditions on the sale of power firm Belco, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Ascendant Group, the holding company that owns Belco, announced on January 28 that it was considering the sale of the group with ...

Owain Johnston-Barnes, Sarah Lagan The Senate rejected last night an Act designed to axe the corporations of Hamilton and St George and turn them into unelected quangos. It was the first vote defeat for the Progressive Labour Party since it won power...

A plan for government-backed mortgages risked increasing debt and “driving a wedge between the public and private sectors” an opposition MP said yesterday. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin of the One Bermuda Alliance said that helping Bermudians to acquire pr...