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Transport Minister Derrick Burgess yesterday announced a moratorium on the issuing of new water truck permits. Mr Burgess told a press conference that the move was aimed at protecting market share for existing water truck operators. “Water truck oper...

Opposition leader Craig Cannonier has questioned why Premier Paula Cox failed to tell taxpayers about problems at Bermuda Land Development Company when she was alerted to them more than a year ago. The Auditor General’s Special Report on the Misuse o...

The Bermuda Land Development Company rarely hits the headlines. In fact, most taxpayers could be forgiven for knowing little about its existence, so seldom are they told anything about it. The quango’s website, www.bldc.com, features limited informat...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews spent months trying to discover who in Government signed off on payments to fund a private legal action for two Cabinet Ministers. But she was unable to find out the answer, along with other details about the c...

The Royal Gazette’s A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign, launched in January 2008, called on Government to open up to the public all quangos, including the Bermuda Land Development Corporation (BLDC). We asked that these taxpayer-funded ent...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews has questioned the “tone at the top” of Government after uncovering two instances of the misuse of public funds and being refused information to fully investigate them. Mrs Matthews revealed in a scathing repor...

In early 2010, when the Bermuda Land Development Company’s board approved the payment of consultancy fees to chairman Edward Saunders and deputy chairman Pastor Leroy Bean, an approximate figure of $14,000 each was settled upon. The two men were to c...

One Bermuda Alliance leader Craig Cannonier last night said the Auditor General's latest damning report highlights how Government has different priorities to its people. Mr Cannonier drew attention to Heather Jacobs Matthews' observations that Govern...

If successful, former Premier Ewart Brown and Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess' personal battle for damages over the false cheques affair stands to yield them $4million. But it's taxpayers who've footed a bill of more than $30,000 in lawyers' fees purs...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews provided the following chronology of her Office’s four-month battle to get information from Government on why Ewart Brown and Derrick Burgess’ personal legal case was funded with taxpayer dollars: May 2, 2011: ...