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Welcome to The Royal Gazette’s live coverage of the 2022 Budget presented by David Burt, the Premier and finance minister. The speech has just finished. We will continue to provide updates and reaction through the day.

Typically, opinions about the upcoming Budget given in the days and hours before it is delivered are exercises in futility. The Budget is usually already written and should be coming back from the printers by the time most of these viewpoints are de...

A balanced Budget has been pushed back a year to 2024-25, the Premier said last night. David Burt, who is now also the Minister of Finance, explained that the postponement was needed to let the Government implement its economic recovery plan and fund...

With the announcement that Curtis Dickinson resigned his Cabinet post came the obvious question: who will take his place? Since the Progressive Labour Party returned to power in 2017, the Government has had two finance ministers. Several legislators ...

Curtis Dickinson, a career banker who transitioned to politics in 2018, brought substantial private sector experience, particularly overseas, to his career as finance minister under the Progressive Labour Party. One of his top roles as minister was u...

Expect a lot of political shots fired during this year’s budget debate, and expect focused questions and observations during the annual Chamber of Commerce Budget Breakfast. Losing Curtis Dickinson is unfortunate. He won widespread respect as finance...

Tickets are now available for the annual Budget Breakfast hosted by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce. The event will be held via Zoom on February 28, the Monday following the delivery of the Budget Statement in the House of Assembly by Curtis Dickinso...

A lack of cash may slow efforts to repair Bermuda’s roads, a government backbencher has warned. Christopher Famous said in an opinion piece published in The Royal Gazette today, that the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic would continue into 20...

February meant the Budget for 2021-22 and all eyes trained on Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, as he unveiled the first pandemic Budget. The document was short on good news, but there was a promise to get the country back to a Budget surplu...

A report on the status of Bermuda’s criminal injuries compensation system is set to be put before the House of Assembly at its next session. It comes after reports that the was “severely backlogged”, resulting in victims of violent crime waiting year...

The finance minister yesterday insisted that price controls were unlikely to be introduced to combat inflation. Curtis Dickinson said that the Covid pandemic would continue to hit the economy, but that he did not expect next year’s Budget to be a “ha...