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Many have questioned why furlough days were imposed on public transport, requiring other workers to step in to fill the service. According to Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell, this was a necessary consequence of furloughs being imposed across the G...

Michael Weeks, the Shadow Minister for Community, Culture and Sport, has berated the Bermuda Government for its “across-the-board cuts” to services that struggling families depend on. Mr Weeks described the budget cuts outlined by Patricia Gordon-Pam...

Readers write, Mr Editor, and I am grateful. They are never wrong and I generally enjoy what they have to say. This week I feature what one astute reader had to share with me: the views of the retired head of the UK Civil service, Lord O’Donnell, on ...

Programmes to help businesses set up have already started to bear fruit, according to Grant Gibbons, Minister of Economic Development. Dr Gibbons hailed the work of the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) and the Business Development Unit in he...

We all know that there is a time for everything, party politics included. In a democracy, there is a time to vote. In a dictatorship, it is always a good time to bite your tongue. In Bermuda, we are now officially at a place that I like to call “bath...

Government funding for the financial assistance programme has increased by 5 per cent for the upcoming financial year. But the rest of the Ministry of Community, Culture and Sport has been subject to significant cash cuts to tackle Bermuda’s debt cri...

The construction of Bermuda’s first solar farm near the airport is still potentially on the cards, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons has revealed. Dr Gibbons told the House of Assembly on Wednesday that the Department of Energy would develo...

New customs duty legislation designed to raise revenue for Government has been passed by the House of Assembly. The Customs Tariff Amendment Act 2015 will raise fuel duty by five cents a litre from next month, generating $9.6 million in additional re...

Parents will be awarded more say in the administration and reform of Bermuda’s public schools, under legislation approved by Parliament. The Education Amendment Act 2015 will redress a long-standing lack of communication, parental involvement, transp...

Bermuda will continue to look to the space and satellite industry in the next financial year to generate extra revenue. Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly that capital funding of $390,000 was dedicated to Satellite...

The Registrar of Companies Department is predicted to bring in more than $65 million in revenue in the next financial year, according to Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons. Dr Gibbons told the House in his Budget presentation yesterday that ...

I guess it was well below the political radar and not very interesting to the media, but the six-page press statement that Minister of Home Affairs Michael Fahy released a few days ago was evidence of good work right down where the rubber meets the r...