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Shoppers will be able to win vouchers for shopping in the island’s Economic Empowerment Zones over the festive season. The Eat, Shop, Play event, organised by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, was designed to encourage people to spend the...

The economy suffered the deepest contraction in living memory last year, the latest statistics revealed last night. The 2020 report on Bermuda’s Gross Domestic Product said the economy contracted by 6.9 per cent in real terms as the Covid-19 pandemi...

The House of Assembly has approved a fee rate for permission to live in Bermuda under an economic investment certificate. A fee of $2,625 was approved for the granting of ministerial permission to live on the island – the same price as a residential ...

A former US assistant attorney-general has been appointed to lead inquiries into the founder of a Bermudian-based data software company accused of sexual misconduct. Leslie R Caldwell will head the investigation into Zia Chishti, who quit his positio...

The Government today admitted it has failed to work out the “magic number” for Bermuda’s ideal population size. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said that despite talks with the finance ministry, ministers had yet to figure out a “ballpark” numbe...

Now that we have had a chance to hear the Progressive Labour Party government’s Throne Speech, we are reminded how bare its cupboard of courageous leadership and meaningful ideas really is. Right now, a number of residents on the island are in need. ...

Overseas purchases by Bermuda residents jumped to $25.6 million in July, an increase of $6 million year-over-year. The jump was reported in the monthly Retail Sales Index Report released on Friday by the Ministry of the Cabinet Office. The 30.6 per c...

The founder of a billion-dollar data software company in Bermuda has quit the firm after he was accused of a sex assault. Zia Chishti resigned his three senior posts at Afiniti in the wake of the allegations by a former employee. The firm said: “The ...

A former premier quit her role on the board of directors of a technology firm at the centre of a sexual harassment and assault allegation about five months ago, it was revealed today. Dame Jennifer Smith said she resigned from the post with Afiniti i...

The head of a billion-dollar data and software company located in Bermuda has been accused of sexual misconduct. Zia Chishti, the founder and chief executive officer of Bermuda-based Afiniti, has been accused of pressuring a former employee into havi...

A “leave no one behind approach” should be adopted by governments as part of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, a regional conference heard. The news came as Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, outlined discussions a...

Diversifying the economy and using new technology to compete will be vital to the future prosperity of the country, a Government minister said on Friday. Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, said during the debate on the Throne Speech: “The only w...