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A new boat that will help in conservation efforts at Nonsuch Island was officially christened today. The boat, called ‘Ascendant’, is part of a ten-year partnership between Government and the Ascendant Group Ltd. Last June, Conservation Services and ...

Cutting public sector jobs to reduce spending is not the answer to the Government's fiscal challenges, Premier Paula Cox told a business audience this morning. Speaking to members of the Chamber of Commerce at a post-Budget breakfast at the Fairmont ...

Transport Minister Terry Lister will look into a private contract the director of TCD claimed Government could do for a million dollars less. As previously reported TCD director Randy Rochester estimated Government could run the emissions testing fa...

Trash will be collected five days a week in an effort to reduce overtime pay. Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess announced the move one of many cost-cutting measures revealed in Premier Paula Cox’s 201½012 Budget. Mr Burgess said changing from a f...

Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling said the City may have to delay or cancel future projects because of Government taking over the collection of Wharfage fees. While it was announced in the budget that the City of Hamilton would be given a $5 million gra...

Justice Minister Michael Scott pledged to crack down on Legal Aid bills racked up by expensive Queen’s Counsels from overseas. Meanwhile programmes in the Justice Department will be cut if they are not good value placing a greater onus on the “self-d...

United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan today urged Premier Paula Cox to take his party’s advice as she prepares to deliver tomorrow’s Budget. Mr Swan said the Island would be in much better shape if Government had heeded the UBP’s financial suggestions...

Government staff are due to move into the new police/court building this weekend, Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess said this morning. Mr Burgess held a press conference where he said the building was due to be finished in August last year, but s...