Tax will go up for high earners if One Bermuda Alliance regains power, party leader Cole Simons has said.
Asked if taxes would go up under an OBA administration, Mr Simons told The Royal Gazette: “In some cases, yes. I think it will be progressive, ...
There has been silence so far from business as companies determine how they would be affected by government proposals that represent a radical departure in Bermuda’s corporate tax structure.
The package of proposals includes deepening the take from i...
DATE: Dec 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
“We cannot lie our way through it. We cannot manipulate our way through it. We cannot save our country if we only tell you what we think you want to hear.
“The lack of transparency around this deal [Fairmont Southampton] and the urgency to g...
The Government should reduce duty on all goods by at least 20 per cent to address the cost-of-living crisis, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union has asserted.
Chris Furbert was speaking at the first of four town hall meetings organised by ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Joe Biden announced last week that he had issued a general pardon for all those convicted of the federal crime of simple cannabis possession. This applies to about 6,500 people and possibly numerous others convicted of the same crime in the District ...
A government brochure full of policy information that was already publicly available was deemed by the Opposition to be “propaganda”.
Doug DeCouto, a One Bermuda Alliance senator, added that public funds should not be spent on producing political adv...
Like all of you, I recently received the Government’s mailing “What the 2022-23 Budget means to you”.
This slick piece of political promotion by the Progressive Labour Party government is further proof that David Burt’s government lacks any true idea...
DATE: Jun 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Douglas De Couto
A new senator went on the attack as he delivered his maiden speech in the Upper House yesterday.
Douglas De Couto, of the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance, said that minor reductions in taxes were “trinkets” handed out by the Government to distract f...
In the final part of this series, we return to where we began with the Premier and his austerity budget. Austerity budgets and economic recoveries are contradictions in terms — budgets that rely solely on spending cuts to reduce deficits are not cond...
DATE: Mar 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Robert Stubbs
So what can we learn from Bermuda’s 2018 tax reform debacle? Three perennial problems for the island are underscored by these unfortunate events. The first is Bermuda’s lack of competent policymakers — in the One Bermuda Alliance as well as the Progr...
DATE: Mar 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Robert Stubbs
