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The Royal Gazette hit the streets of Hamilton yesterday to gauge how voters felt about Premier Paula Cox’s new Budget. Many who spoke to this newspaper complimented Ms Cox on rolling back her two percent payroll tax hike from the year before. Coral ...

Bermuda’s courts have seen a 25 percent increase in the number of criminal cases they deal with in the past three years, according to new figures. There is also a higher percentage of court cases that end with a conviction - 77 percent now compared t...

Axing a large number of public-sector jobs is not the answer to Bermuda’s fiscal woes and doing it could simply inflict more damage on the struggling economy, Premier Paula Cox told a business audience yesterday. Speaking to around 280 people at a po...

Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva has warned that the $7.5 million slash in his department’s funding may mean less of a response to non-emergency situations. However, he pledged to keep the same focus on the fight against guns and gangs. The Bermud...

Premier Paula Cox's payroll tax reversal was an admission she got it wrong with last year's increase, Bermuda Democratic Alliance finance spokesman Michael Fahy said yesterday. Mr Fahy accused the Finance Minister of a U-turn by dropping payroll from...

Premier Paula Cox has pledged to get taxpayers more involved in the Government’s spending decisions and policy making. The Finance Minister said in her Budget statement on Friday she planned to begin work shortly on developing a more transparent meth...

The annual cost of parliamentarians’ salaries now tops $4 million, according to new figures released by Government. The highest earner is Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox on $224,000 a year; she earns $8,000 less than Governor Sir Richard Gozne...

In dictatorial regimes throughout the world any attempt to unravel the status quo maintained by iron fist, is usually met with brutal resistance where the power structure will stop at nothing, to silence those who call for basic human rights in an at...