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Changes to improve the island’s immigration laws could be on the law books by the end of July, the national security minister signalled yesterday. Wayne Caines said the latest report by the bipartisan Immigration Reform Group was submitted to him las...

A British attempt to force overseas territories to produce public registers of beneficial company ownership has sparked a war of words in the UK’s House of Commons. Dame Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP who helped to lead a cross-party alliance of MPs tha...

An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions. Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...

Curtis Dickinson has accused Nick Kempe of playing “political football” as the Government works to protect the international business sector. Mr Kempe, the Shadow Minister of Finance, questioned what the Government had done to ensure companies expand...

A total of 161 applicants based in Bermuda have applied for 27 jobs listed on a careers site for financial technology firm Bitcarbon, the company’s founder and chief executive said last night. Cormac Kinney, an American entrepreneur and software desi...

The Government has to get its accounts in order after “significant arrears” were found in financial statements covering a seven-year period, the Auditor-General said in a hard-hitting report released yesterday Heather Thomas said that 34 government o...

Opportunities existed for Bermuda despite tough new rules designed to crack down on international business, senators said yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said that although Bermuda was at the “top en...

Six further members of watchdog groups to scrutinise public spending were announced in the Senate yesterday. Members of the Upper House will join MPs in three parliamentary oversight committees to hold ministers and their departments to account in an...

An increase in immigration would boost the island’s struggling retail sector, the Leader of the Opposition said yesterday. Craig Cannonier said he was alarmed by figures that showed a decline in sales for seven months in a row and insisted action had...

Three watchdog groups to scrutinise public spending will start work in the new year, the Speaker of the House of Assembly said. The Parliamentary Oversight Committees will hold ministers and their departments to account in an effort to get value for ...