presented by Finance Minister Eugene Cox yesterday.
To His Honour the Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly Mr. Speaker, The Budget for 2000/01, the first for Bermuda in this new century, reflects this Government's intention to la...
$71m for new school Employee payroll tax to rise Ferry and bus fares face hikes Police get $766,000 more money A total of nearly $529 million will be spent by Government this year -- an increase of $17.66 million on the previous year -- and with ...
The new Government inherited a situation with regard to our 1986 Tax Convention with the United States that had to be addressed immediately.
Extensive discussions, two visits to Washington with a team from the Finance Ministry and a return visit to B...
Additional expenditure relating to Y2K totalling $201,000 was needed to replace a non-compliant fire alarm system at the Ministry of Health and a telephone system at all Prison facilities. Design fees and development costs for dock facilities for the...
many ways won it the 1998 Election -- comes through very clearly in yesterday's Budget.
There is nothing wrong with that. Focused spending on education is an investment in Bermuda's long term future, especially as the Island moves into the "new econo...
Government intends to spend $71 million, over three years, to build a new Berkeley Institute in a move to complete "unfinished business''.
This adds one year to previous commitments, but came as welcome news to the man who heads the school's board of...
DATE: Feb 19, 2000 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
Angry shopkeepers yesterday blasted the Budget as too little -- and maybe too late -- to save some struggling retailers.
Ian Smith, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce retail division, said: "The chamber is disappointed at the level of relief given t...
DATE: Feb 19, 2000 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
squads -- senior and under-23 -- as they headed for Florida for World Cup and Olympic warm-up matches, talk instead turned to what has become football's modern day scourge -- drugs.
Shadow Education Minister Tim Smith claimed that certain sports club...
Tax breaks for shopkeepers and a bigger investment in education and training are on the cards for today's Budget, The Royal Gazette has learned.
And -- despite calls from Finance Minister Eugene Cox for belt-tightening -- the Police service could als...
Budget since the party took power in November, 1998.
Finance Minister Eugene Cox's February, 1999 Statement was a hybrid effort because the new Government had only four months to work on the Budget and much of the groundwork had been laid before the ...
