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Refuse collection and other services in Hamilton will be brought to a halt on Monday as Corporation of Hamilton workers down tools to attend an urgent meeting at the Bermuda Industrial Union. The meeting has been called after an employee was fired fo...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews spent months trying to discover who in Government signed off on payments to fund a private legal action for two Cabinet Ministers. But she was unable to find out the answer, along with other details about the c...

Budget restraints cut the number of new recruits at the Bermuda Regiment in half this year, but when it comes to enthusiasm the small platoon is twice as lively. And several male recruits who were firmly against conscription two weeks ago have had a...

The Royal Gazette’s A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign, launched in January 2008, called on Government to open up to the public all quangos, including the Bermuda Land Development Corporation (BLDC). We asked that these taxpayer-funded ent...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews has questioned the “tone at the top” of Government after uncovering two instances of the misuse of public funds and being refused information to fully investigate them. Mrs Matthews revealed in a scathing repor...

In early 2010, when the Bermuda Land Development Company’s board approved the payment of consultancy fees to chairman Edward Saunders and deputy chairman Pastor Leroy Bean, an approximate figure of $14,000 each was settled upon. The two men were to c...

One Bermuda Alliance leader Craig Cannonier last night said the Auditor General's latest damning report highlights how Government has different priorities to its people. Mr Cannonier drew attention to Heather Jacobs Matthews' observations that Govern...

If successful, former Premier Ewart Brown and Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess' personal battle for damages over the false cheques affair stands to yield them $4million. But it's taxpayers who've footed a bill of more than $30,000 in lawyers' fees purs...

Unveiling Bob Richards as One Bermuda Alliance’s candidate for Devonshire East at the next General Election, Craig Cannonier said Bermuda would be far healthier if the Progressive Labour Party had followed Mr Richards’ advice. The Shadown Finance Min...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews provided the following chronology of her Office’s four-month battle to get information from Government on why Ewart Brown and Derrick Burgess’ personal legal case was funded with taxpayer dollars: May 2, 2011: ...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews ends her special report on the misuse of public funds with this statement: “In my opinion, this entire situation is deplorable and represents a blatant disregard for the public purse and a lack of transparency ...