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the House of Assembly by Finance Minister Grant Gibbons yesterday. To His Honour the Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Thirty years ago, in the Spring of 1968, the first United Bermuda Party Government assumed res...

Berkeley Institute into a senior secondary school. But there was still no word yesterday as to when construction on the Island's designated second senior school will begin. Finance Minister Grant Gibbons in his 1998/99 Budget statement noted that pla...

by Finance Minister Grant Gibbons in yesterday's Budget. He told the House of Assembly: "This Government understands that our people are the key asset for economic prosperity in the modern global economy. "Accordingly, most of the expenditure in this...

Increases in the exempted company fee categories will vary from 0.89 percent in the lowest category, which rises from $1,680 to $1,695 per annum, to six percent in the highest category. It should also be noted that the penalty for late payment of the...

Government has provided its clearest hint yet that it may consider in the coming fiscal year increasing the legislated debt ceiling of $185 million to enable further borrowing. It comes as the most significant review of Bermuda's tax structure in dec...

Mr. Speaker, Government is conscious of the need for a social safety net and has built into its 1998-99 capital spending plan $3.15 million for an adolescent residential care facility and $450,000 for a prison half-way house. A further $215,000 will ...

is a budget which gives some support to tourism and international business while concentrating on the people by allocating $270 million to spending in such areas as education, training, health, youth, sports, social services and public safety. The Mi...

Soprano Marcelle Clamens moves a step closer to the heart of the international music scene when she gives not one, but two concerts this year at New York's celebrated Carnegie Hall. As one of the three top winners at last year's IBLA Grand Prize in I...

In the wake of the horrors of the Second World War the fledgling United Nations formed a committee to prepare a document on universal rights of all mankind. On February 16, 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of the wartime American president, was name...

tomorrow's Budget. And he ailing tourism industry may be in line to get another shot in the arm in the last financial package before the General Election. But a touch of tenderness in dealing with the Island's social problems can also be expected -- ...