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The Transport Control Department will close at 3.45pm today, the Bermuda Government has announced. All administrative services will still be available until 4.45pm. In a statement, Government said that online re-licensing and appointment booking is a...

Heather Jacobs Matthews will be retiring on November 15 after more than six years as Bermuda’s Auditor-General. Announcing the move, Governor George Fergusson stated: “I would like to take this opportunity to pay a very warm tribute to the Auditor-Ge...

Reporting issues have rendered recent financial statements for the Health Insurance Department “unauditable” by the Auditor-General. However, Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, said that “better days are ahead”, as the department has advanced g...

Former minister Quinton Edness has implored the Bermuda Government to impose cuts rather than draw on its $200 million loan agreement with Butterfield Bank. Mr Edness warned last night that incurring further debt on top of the existing $2.185 billio...

Mark Twain’s aphorism about never putting off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow was intended as a sardonic rebuke to the chronically tardy, not a rallying cry. But Bermuda seems to have other ideas. Long the author’s second home, ...

Dear Sir, This letter is addressed to the Finance Minister, Bob Richards. I don’t want to hear you moan and groan again in the press about being $2.5 billion in debt as a government, or not being able to balance the budget. You have failed to make...

With gross national debt at $2.185 billion and facing another year with a budget deficit, the Bermuda Government is to execute a $200 million loan facility agreement with Butterfield Bank. Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, made the announcement ...

A report into Government’s proposed airport development plans has identified several areas of the deal that could still be improved. The public private partnership with Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) has been the subject of intense public and ...

The recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing on the Auditor General’s report on the Port Royal Golf Course provides an instructive example of why Government is faced with an unprecedented financial crisis, has operated annual deficits since 200...

There’s no sense crying over spilled milk, right? Wrong — and certainly not when it involves taxpayers’ money and politics. It seems also to depend, Mr Editor, on whose milk we happen to be talking about and how fresh or sour it was when it was spi...

Dear Sir, After having sat in that meeting at the Library last week and listened to what had been revealed, I personally believe outside (Scotland Yard) investigators must pick up where the Auditor General left off. No-one operates, or shouldn’t, a b...