Youth Parliament resumed this week, with members addressing a raft of proposed initiatives including parental responsibility legislation and educational change.
Their concerns were stated directly to the powers that be Premier Ewart Brown, Deputy Pre...
Mr. Speaker
This is my sixth National Budget and it is set amidst an array of very challenging economic and financial circumstances. The global economy is in recession and there is sustained turmoil in world capital and financial markets.
The lack of...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Higher federal and state taxes on cigarettes this year may bring the biggest drop in smoking ever, reducing the tobacco industry's annual payments to states by as much as $500 million and threatening the repayment of $37 billio...
An army of 120-strong has lent its efforts to a campaign to rid Bermuda of an invading armada of predators.
However experts say the number of volunteers needs to be greater if the Island is to stamp out the lionfish, now threatening the ecosystem of ...
Opposition Senator Michael Dunkley urged Government to drop the spin and get real about Bermuda's tourism prospects.
He said talk about the 'platinum period' flew in the face of depressing statistics as he noted falling arrivals, hotel occupancy figu...
An article in Tuesday's Royal Gazette incorrectly stated that BTEC, the Bermuda Technology Education Collaborative, had donated nine promethean boards to schools in Bermuda. The actual number is 20. We apologise for the error.
Lionfish are indigenous to the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, but are now expanding rapidly in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
It is thought they were first introduced into Biscayne Bay, Florida, in 1992 from a private aquarium in a waterside home swept into ...
Bermuda can expect gale force weather today — but a repeat performance of Monday's severe storm is not expected.
Forecasters said last night that southwesterly winds would increase from late afternoon onwards from strong to gale force and would get w...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
ATLANTA (AP) — Historically black colleges and universities, which for decades have been educating students who cannot afford to go — or cannot imagine going — elsewhere, have been particularly challenged by the US economic meltdown.
Enrollments at t...
Finance Minister Paula Cox will deliver her fifth and arguably most crucial Budget on Friday.
She is tasked with helping keep the economy going during the recession, while also upholding her pledge to cut spending in all Government departments by mor...
