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A 24 percent increase in spending for the Cabinet Office was highlighted in the debate on the Budget in the Senate yesterday. But the ruling party insisted that the wrong budget year was being addressed. Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley repea...

March 19, 2012 Dear Sir, The Government appears to be struggling to find a way to catch the vehicle licence cheats. One possible solution: once a registered car owner reaches the age of 65 they must take an annual road test prior to registering their...

Hospital fees will be raised by two percent to generate an extra $4.8 million over the next fiscal year. Health Minister Zane DeSilva said one percent of the increase is for inflation and the other one percent is because of the new hospital construct...

Bermuda Monetary Authority fees for special purpose insurers will be cut by almost 50 percent under legislation approved by the House of Assembly. Registration fees will be reduced from $11,600 to $6,000 in an attempt to make it more attractive for t...

Advocates for the elderly have commended Premier Paula Cox’s decision not to make seniors pay to license larger cars. Age Concern director Claudette Fleming said: “With respect to the Premier’s response of fine-tuning the original conditions outlined...

Anthony Manders has been appointed to the post of financial secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Cabinet Office announced. Mr Manders has been the assistant financial secretary since March 2004. Prior to that, he was one of two Assistant Accountant...

The Ministry of Finance has spent more than $3 million on consultants this fiscal year. Figures provided by the Ministry in response to parliamentary questions put forward by Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards show that between April 1, 2011 and Fe...

A law change enabling a standard 25 percent duty rate to be charged on goods imported for personal use was introduced in the House of Assembly by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox. The Island’s courier companies hit out at the move when it was f...

With 780 government-owned buildings to maintain, Government Minister of Estates and Information Services Michael Scott disclosed last night that government is faced with the ongoing discovery of mould, now that most government buildings are approachi...