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This year’s police budget of more than $68 million won’t be enough to get the service up to full strength, Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards complained yesterday. In his reply to the Budget, the One Bermuda Alliance MP said the Island’s gang probl...

Continued from Page 4 Encouraging private industry to “step up too”, Mr Roban said Government had been a stimulator and a generator, not a “job creator”. Over the past four years, he said, surpluses had not materialised, but “Government has still had...

Environment Minister Marc Bean criticised the One Bermuda Alliance for suggesting things in the Reply to the Budget that Government is already doing. His speech was punctuated by frequent heckles from Government MP Glenn Blakeney of “copycat politics...

For some time now, the One Bermuda Alliance has been criticised for not providing enough detail on its policy proposals. Shadow Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards’ Reply to the Throne Speech was clearly aimed at answering that criticism as it laid o...

Government MP Marc Bean accused the One Bermuda Alliance of “playing the racecard” in electing black MP Craig Cannonier as party leader. Mr Bean, who is also black, made the remarks while lambasting the OBA for using what he described as “racial rhet...

Health Minister Zane DeSilva issued a robust response to Opposition criticism on his portfolio contained in the Budget Reply yesterday. A statement sent to the media on his behalf defended the initiative to cap spending on the hospital subsidy and qu...

The One Bermuda Alliance would make it a priority to grow the economy in order to generate jobs, reduce the national debt and control Government spending, said Bob Richards in his Reply to the Budget Statement yesterday. Cost-cutting measures, he sai...

Bermuda’s seniors gained little in Premier Paula Cox’s Budget for the coming fiscal year. So believes former Bermuda Council on Ageing head Marian Sherratt. She said she agreed with the rollback announced by the Premier on land tax and vehicle licenc...