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Buses are not expected to run this morning as a labour withdrawal over immigration legislation continues. The Ministry of Tourism Development and Transport yesterday afternoon announced that the bus service would be cancelled at least during the morn...

Dear Sir, Ask anyone in the present economic climate in Bermuda, or anywhere, whether they would prefer to have a job and its associated benefits or no job and severance pay. Most would choose to have a job. Yet we are given to understand that the Be...

Bermuda was braced for industrial activity this morning, with Michael Dunkley describing the People’s Campaign’s call for an island-wide work stoppage as “irresponsible and misconceived”. At 11pm last night, the Bermuda Government warned of likely di...

A recalled statement by the People’s Campaign urged the public to join an “island-wide withdrawal of labour” tomorrow to protest against immigration reforms. At 1.59pm yesterday, the pressure group sent the media the press release, announced “in soli...

The Bermuda Public Service Union has contacted its members warning them it has not endorsed industrial action after receiving a communique from the Bermuda Trade Union Congress. The communique allegedly being disseminated asks workers to engage in wo...

Bermuda’s tax structure needs revamping sooner rather than later, Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert said in his appraisal of the latest Budget statement. Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, acknowledged in last Friday’s statement th...

The Bermuda Government’s move to hike up payroll tax has been branded “baffling” by the Bermuda Public Services Union, as the tax regime is already tilted against lower income workers. Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, conceded the imbalance dur...

The budget for the Ministry of Education has been reduced by $2.23 million for the financial year ahead. Projected spending on education for 2016 to 2017 is $124.9 million, less than the forecast for the previous year according to the 2016 budget del...

The budget for the Bermuda Police Service has been increased marginally by Bob Richards, the finance minister, for the next financial year. For 2015-16, the police budget was initially set at $64,423,000, but that forecast has been revised to $64,487...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers has implored education minister Wayne Scott to address “blind spots” in the school reorganisation (Score) report which it says lacks detail on a plan of action. The union also criticised the minister for releasing the re...

“If I’m not for me, then who is for me?“If I’m only for me, then who am I?“If not me, who? If not now, when?”Last week’s announcement of a collaboration in which J.J. Soares made an agreement with Age Concern to provide free medical examinations for ...

Many of Bermuda’s public school buildings are “worse than Third World” and the Bermuda Government should focus on fixing them rather than closing or consolidating schools, according to the leader of a teachers’ union. Mike Charles, general secretary ...