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Finance Minister Bob Richards has said there will be extensive consultation before Government carries out any cost-cutting recommendations made by the SAGE Commission. But in a statement issued this morning, he appeared not to rule out future redunda...

Getting Bermuda’s ailing economy back on track could take a few years, the chairman of the Island’s international business umbrella group said yesterday. George Hutchings, who heads up the Association of Bermuda International Companies (ABIC) said th...

The Opposition will have an opportunity to address the Tripartite Economic Committee, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. Sen Fahy said that while he denied an “eleventh hour” request to consider inviting the Progressive Labour Party to ...

Some civil servants are being awarded “exorbitant” benefits packages with overtime pay that is “significantly higher than the norm in the private sector”, according to the SAGE Commission. And Government employees have been able to secure generous de...

The size of Parliament should be slashed, the SAGE Commission has recommended. And the SAGE Commission said the Civil Service suffered from weak leadership — and called for poor performers to be fired, early retirement schemes and pay cuts, with the ...

Sick days by Government workers cost more than $10 million a year, statistics in a new report on Government efficiency have revealed. Bermuda public servants take an average of eight days off sick every year — nearly 42,000 days in total. The SAGE Co...

The final report from the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission will go public for the first time after it is tabled in today’s session of the House of Assembly. The document is the culmination of months of meetings with representativ...

A two-day gathering of delegates from Government, the unions and private sector representatives to tackle Bermuda’s precarious economic situation began this morning. Premier Craig Cannonier warned the tripartite economic committee of a continued back...

Bermuda needs to relax its immigration policies and vastly improve the education level of locals if it is to remain competitive in the global job market, according to employment expert Doug Soares. He told Hamilton Rotarians that the Island needed to...