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The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Bermuda that aims to lift low-income workers off the breadline.
More than two years after Rolfe Commissiong, a government backbencher, first moved to launch a committee that would consider a li...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
Accounting and legal services are set to be taxed in next month’s Budget, according to a report by independent advisers of the Bermuda Government.
The Fiscal Responsibility Panel’s annual assessment, published last month, also estimates that Governme...
DATE: Jan 05, 2018
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David Burt has vowed to communicate and listen more as the Progressive Labour Party tackles inequality in 2018.
Delivering his new year’s message yesterday, the Premier said introducing a living wage and reducing the high cost of living in Bermuda wo...
DATE: Jan 02, 2018
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Bermuda could be in line for a new professional services tax, the island’s Fiscal Responsibility Panel said yesterday.
The annual report from the three-strong panel of experts predicted that the new tax could come in the next financial year.
The repo...
DATE: Dec 22, 2017
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Importers of food and other goods will face fines of up to $5,000 if they fail to provide information to a new commission examining their costs and margins.
The Cost of Living Commission, renamed from the Price Commission, will be established by legi...
DATE: Dec 11, 2017
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Legislation to create a commission to look at changes to Bermuda’s tax system was today approved by Senate.
Government senator Vance Campbell said the Tax Reform Commission Act 2017 made provision for a short-term statutory body to examine tax.
The J...
DATE: Oct 25, 2017
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New legislation giving the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act priority over the Human Rights Act will be debated in the House of Assembly today.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, has said the move “will not take away from anyone’s funda...
DATE: Oct 20, 2017
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Jonathan Bell
I got into politics in 2012, not because of some lifelong yearning to govern, but because I was profoundly concerned with the suffering already being caused by bad economic policy and poor management of public money. Right now, our debt payments exce...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017
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The One Bermuda Alliance and the Progressive Labour Party have recognised that promoting tourism will be key for whichever party wins the election.
While the One Bermuda Alliance hopes to build on the legacy of the America’s Cup, the Progressive Labo...
DATE: Jul 08, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Michael Dunkley has described the preamble to the Progressive Labour Party’s platform as “divorced from reality”.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, the Premier dismissed language contained within Opposition leader David Burt’s statement as f...
DATE: Jul 08, 2017
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