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New taxes could be in the pipeline for the 2019-20 Budget, the Minister of Finance said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said in his pre-Budget report that possible taxes included one on homes where the main function was for rental to tourists or to empl...

The City of Hamilton dodged a $30 million bullet after London’s Privy Council found in its favour in a dispute over a guarantee for a failed hotel project, the mayor said yesterday. The Corporation of Hamilton had guaranteed an $18 million bridging l...

From the moment he launched his campaign for president, Donald Trump compared the barrier he wanted to build along the United States southern border to China’s Great Wall. With the US Government now shuttered by the stand-off over funding Trump’s wal...

With thousands of American federal workers left without paycheques, as Donald Trump carried out his threat to shut down the United States Government for not being given $5 billion to build a wall along the Mexican border, much of America is in a stat...

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled t...

The “special relationship” was not supposed to look like this. On both sides of the pond, governments are wracked by chaos and paralysis. In Washington, an attempt by President Donald Trump to get funding for his border wall has triggered the longes...

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. These emotions, doctors tell us, are the five stages of grief. And the people working in Bermuda’s international business community — “Bermuda Inc” — have experienced most of these emotions since the...

Seniors are seeing a 1.4 per cent increase in their contributory pension benefits this month, backdated to August of last year. The increased payout, which is in line with inflation, would normally trigger a simultaneous increase in the mandatory con...

Cabinet Office minister Walton Brown revealed yesterday that the Government has not found the money for a Commission of Inquiry into “land grabs” and property theft, nor has it asked Britain to pay for one. Mr Brown, who first proposed an inquiry and...

Three new schemes to develop young talent will be investments in the future of Bermuda, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt announced the programmes, to benefit ten young people at a cost of about $70,000, in line with a Throne Speech pledge last ...

Steps to quell gang violence in Bermuda were detailed this evening by Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security. Mr Caines appeared on ZBM to highlight “milestones and key initiatives” this year, and said that the island was “heading in the rig...

A lack of leadership on same-sex marriage slowed progress towards equality, the outgoing chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission has claimed. Tawana Tannock said the row was the most difficult subject she had tackled in her six years with the HRC,...