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Former Cabinet Minister Derrick Burgess has accused the Auditor-General of bias, unfairness, carelessness and inaccuracy in his official response to the damning report she released last year. Mr Burgess has been silent since the 315-page report into ...

The chairman of the Commission of Inquiry could be paid $700 per day in addition to expenses, Michael Dunkley told the House of Assembly. Meanwhile, the three other members investigating how taxpayers’ money was handled under the former Progressive L...

The House of Assembly last night approved an increase in payroll tax despite vocal opposition. While Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, said the move was a temporary but necessary measure, shadow minister David Burt said it would place an additio...

In January 2008, the Auditor-General submitted the Annual Report for the years ended April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007. It was a qualified report. The Auditor-General stated that he had not received all information and assistance needed to carry out ...

Tributes have been paid in Parliament to Jasmine “Jasz” Saltus, a respected officer within the Transport Control Department who died on Thursday at the age of 41. A former detective from the Bermuda Police Service, where he gained a baton of honour a...

Shadow transport minister Lawrence Scott has blasted the Bermuda Government for “not including a single word about road safety” in its Budget Statement, describing the issue as a “national health crisis”. Speaking in the House of Assembly last night ...

The One Bermuda Alliance’s legacy will be the “the great Bermudian exodus”, Shadow Minister of Finance David Burt told MPs in his Reply to the Budget yesterday. The OBA was accused of adding $1 billion to the island’s debt and overseeing the loss of ...

Meticulously prepared, the Budget is 54 pages long, replete with charts, statistics, analogies, historical data, and some very cautious optimism. It contains shrewd observations on our Bermuda financial environment: investments, government infrastruc...

A long day for MPs lies in store at the House of Assembly today as the Progressive Labour Party delivers its Reply to the Budget. David Burt, the Shadow Minister of Finance, will respond to last week’s Budget statement delivered by finance minister B...

Bob Richards has an unenviable task. His brief as finance minister is to take the tough actions necessary to keep the country from lurching into fiscal disaster, while not smothering a nascent economic recovery. And his brief as a politician is to pe...

Bermuda’s tax structure needs revamping sooner rather than later, Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert said in his appraisal of the latest Budget statement. Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, acknowledged in last Friday’s statement th...

The price of oil may have fallen worldwide, but for local consumers the cost of electricity will soon rise as a knock-on effect of the latest Budget. While motorists will pay a higher fee at the pumps, Belco’s customers will also pay for more for Cus...