LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government will be hamstrung by Britain's perilous financial situation when it delivers its annual budget today — a key moment in its battle to win voters ahead of a national election.
The country's hesitan...
The number of people seeking Financial Assistance has risen by a third in the past year.
Up to 1,400 Bermudians and their families are now dependent on state welfare as the economic downturn continues.
The figures were revealed by Neletha Butterfield...
The increasing cost of employing people in Bermuda will add to the pressure on the Island's global re/insurers to locate more jobs in cheaper jurisdictions.
That is the view of Stephen Catlin, co-founder and chief executive officer of Catlin Group Lt...
DATE: Mar 23, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Bermuda saw another life taken through violence this weekend when James Lawes, a 25-year-old barber who had been married for four months, was gunned down in an alley after being chased down a busy street. Two other men were wounded in the same incide...
WASHINGTON — If health care reform finally staggers across the finish line, it will be because President Obama and congressional Democrats recognised — at long last — the truth that has been staring them in the face for more than a year: They'll be b...
MPs will have the right to invite the public into their committee meetings following a change in House of Assembly rules given the provisional go-ahead yesterday.
It means groups like the Public Accounts Committee — which checks whether taxpayers' mo...
DATE: Mar 23, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Pembroke MP Ashfield DeVent yesterday called on Bermudians to stop marching through his back of town constituency — and do something that really makes a difference instead.
Mr. DeVent said marchers are doing nothing to prevent the gun violence which ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Bermuda international John Barry Nusum has not been offered a new contract by Crystal Palace Baltimore.
He is one of 11 players from last season's roster who have not been handed new deals ahead of the USA Eagles' debut season in the USSF Division 2 ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Stephen Wright
MPs will have the right to invite the public into their committee meetings following a change in House of Assembly rules given the provisional go-ahead yesterday.
It means groups like the Public Accounts Committee — which checks whether taxpayers' mo...
DATE: Mar 23, 2010 | CATEGORY: Campaigns | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Two representatives from the Cambridge International Curriculum have been providing on-Island support for principals and teachers in preparation for the rollout of the new curriculum in ll public schools in September.
Roger Franklin-Smith and Gillian...
