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The Bermuda Government has been forced to back-pedal on revenue-raising customs amendments that had been expected to bring in almost $20 million. The reversal spells a last-minute scramble for businesses, some of which had already priced goods for im...

Michael Dunkley has accused Opposition leader David Burt of “selective amnesia” for stating that the One Bermuda Alliance has taken too long to enact the Good Governance Act. The Premier highlighted that the Progressive Labour Party, which introduced...

Walter Roban has reiterated calls for answers regarding the decision by police to pepper spray protesters. Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, the deputy Opposition leader said that as of this weekend 100 days had passed since the December...

The Progressive Labour Party will be hosting a jobs summit on diversity, inclusion and opportunity on Tuesday. “This event is an opportunity to hear our plans for change: facilitating job creation, growing our economy and ensuring that Bermudians co...

The annual accounts of the Consolidated Fund of the Bermuda Government for 2015-16 have been given an unqualified audit opinion. Finance minister Bob Richards welcomed the news, which he pointed out was the Consolidated Fund’s fourth consecutive clea...

MPs across parties agreed on one point during their debate over the Opposition’s Reply to the Budget: the island’s national debt must be brought back to heel. But the One Bermuda Alliance and Progressive Labour Party sparred over which side bore resp...

Tax reform aimed at the privileged will be a key priority for the Progressive Labour Party if it wins the next General Election, leader David Burt said yesterday. Mr Burt vowed to tackle inequality by targeting “vast swaths of domestic wealth and inc...

Opposition MP Zane DeSilva and other former trustees of the Port Royal Golf Course are being sued by the Government over a taxpayer-funded refurbishment project which went $20 million over budget. Attorney-General Trevor Moniz alleged in a statement ...

While there is “nothing mysterious” about the delay in rolling out the general services tax, now set for April 2018, Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, conceded that the Bermuda Government had “yet to really define the scope of it”. The proposed ...

Two years ago on his appointment as education minister, Wayne Scott said he planned to stay in the position for the long term and “see the work done”. However, yesterday Michael Dunkley announced that Mr Scott had other interests to fulfil and that t...