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The Royal Gazette’s Budget headline of “Premier favours growth over austerity with $1.08b Budget” misses the mark. Bermuda has been in economic contraction for a number of years, and there was nothing in this Budget that was a break from the past whi...

Families campaigner Martha Dismont called on Government to empower the community after seeing many charities miss out on Budget funding. Sandys 360 was awarded $2 million in last Friday’s Budget to help pay for refurbishments, after Premier and Finan...

The Ministry of Youth, Families and Sports walked away the biggest winner from the 2012/13 Budget, up more than 20 percent. From last year's $62 million, expenditure for this Ministry is estimated at $75.3 million for the coming fiscal year driven la...

Premier Paula Cox has defended her Government’s Budget policies of recent years as a choice between austerity and growth. She has claimed that the policies, along with the rollbacks on payroll taxes and payroll tax relief, have saved something on th...

February 23, 2012 Dear Sir, If a Government car can remain parked on the street for five days then it is blatantly obvious that neither the driver, or the Department responsible, require that car to perform their daily functions. If it did, then sure...

The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation has seen its budget rise by five percent to help cover the costs of the hosting the upcoming Carifta Games. The ministry received $12, 053,000 in yesterday’s Budget, an increase of $536,000 on last year’s...

No one would want to be Finance Minister right now, and that adds to the mystery of why Premier Paula Cox kept the portfolio when she did not have to. As stated in Thursday’s editorial, Ms Cox is stuck between a rock and a hard place this year, give...

An 11 percent increase in the budget for the Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Ministry will help “bring order” to the telecommunications industry with the implementation of long-awaited reform, Minister Marc Bean said. He acknowledged that th...

The recession in Bermuda will last a fourth straight year through 2012, according to Government estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The National Economic Report of 2011, released yesterday, estimated Bermuda’s GDP would “decline in the region ...