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April 19, 2012 Dear Sir, Most financial commentators today are focusing on how much Bermuda has to send overseas every year to simply service the debt that the PLP has created. In 2012 alone, I believe this is going to be $115 million. How many hund...

April 2, 2012 Dear Sir, I recently downloaded the Government’s 2011 Digest of Statistics. Reading through against a backdrop of “let’s all pull together”, “doing more with less”, “cutting spending”, “reducing contributions to charities”, etc, etc, I...

The new import duty rates go into effect this weekend. As of Sunday, a standard rate of 25 percent will be charged for such items as clothes, jewellery, electronics and household furniture and appliances. The duty for wine and champagne will be $2.6...

Senators clashed over Government’s soaring debt once more as the Budget debate came to an end last night. One Bermuda Alliance Senators Michael Dunkley and Michael Fahy criticised Government for treating the Sinking Fund as a piggy bank, mismanaging ...

March 22, 2012 Dear Sir, I have trouble listening to our Premier speaking vague nonsense and expecting everyone to just agree with her. Her latest is that our $1.4 billion crippling debt is okay because the Progressive Labour Party Government has mad...

The Opposition expressed concern over the timescale for two major capital projects to be completed during the Senate debate on the 2012 budget for Public Works. Presenting the budget, Government said the project to replace the Causeway bridge to St G...