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The decision to bypass war veterans and pay their pensions directly to nursing homes has been faulted as a cutback targeting an especially undeserving group. Carol Everson, a welfare case worker for the Bermuda Legion, conceded that reductions might ...

Bermuda’s failure to meet its own goals for spending cuts is “unfortunate” and “will not play out well with rating agencies and our creditors”, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development. Under the middle-term expenditure frame...

Shadow Finance Minister, David Burt, has condemned Government’s strategy of “across the board cuts” to tackle Bermuda’s financial problems. He also accused the One Bermuda Alliance of “a stream of policy reversals in the last 72 hours” that proved cu...

Craig Cannonier appeared last night to backtrack on the decision to close Bermuda’s recycling plant for a year. Twenty-four hours earlier, the Minister for Public Works had said the move to suspend the Material Recovery Facility service had been made...

Dear Sir, It constantly annoys me to see the PLP criticising the OBA’s spending and their constant scrutiny of anything the OBA does. Did we have any say in the greatest foreign affairs debacle when the former Premier brought four Guantánamo detaine...

Some of Bermuda’s dwindling population of war veterans will see a change in their pensions, starting next month, as their cheques are applied to care expenses. According to the Bermuda Legion, just over 200 veterans in the Island have been receiving ...

Here’s a novel exercise to undertake, Mr. Editor, when assessing the Annual Budget Debate. Let’s look for a change at the issues and approaches on which the Government and Opposition appear to agree and put to one side for a moment the differences, t...

Dear Sir, Why, I don’t know. But I watched and listened to Burt and Marino briefly on the show Let’s Talk. This guy, as smart as he seems, absolutely refuses, with his other cohorts, to understand the reasons why the OBA must cut back and reduce whe...

Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy has released the most recent statistics from his Ministry with highlights including 22 new businesses being opened and increases in planning and building permits. The Minister said: “The statistics for 2014 are a po...

Extra spending alone won’t translate into better results, Education Minister Wayne Scott told Parliament yesterday, defending the $127 million allocated — a drop of five per cent. Mr Scott called the amount acceptable for the public school system’s r...