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What a difference a few weeks makes. One moment Bermudians are preparing to “breathe” a collective sigh of relief with real evidence of the pandemic subsiding, as the Government reveals plans for lifting associated Covid restrictions and ho...
DATE: Mar 09, 2022
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Letters to the Editor
The Premier is a “slippery-tongued” deceiver who has hiked payroll tax, the Opposition leader told the House of Assembly yesterday.
Cole Simons accused David Burt, also the finance minister, of deliberately misleading the public.
He said: “The Minis...
DATE: Mar 05, 2022
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Politics
Reduced electricity bills could be in the pipeline if government revenue and expenditure pan out as predicted this year.
The pledge was one of several relief measures promised by David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, during yesterday’s Budget...
DATE: Feb 26, 2022
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Budget
A balanced Budget has been pushed back a year to 2024-25, the Premier said last night.
David Burt, who is now also the Minister of Finance, explained that the postponement was needed to let the Government implement its economic recovery plan and fund...
DATE: Feb 25, 2022
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Politics
The old adage no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy could apply equally well to government budgets, never more so than when the Covid-19 pandemic is added to the mix.
So Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, deserves some sympat...
DATE: Dec 13, 2021
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Editorials
The Throne Speech, under the title of “Social Renewal and Economic Recovery”, opened with the Governor’s reflection on the “definitive”, once-in-an-era change brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rena Lalgie told the gathering: “The wounds inflicted by ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2021
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Politics
With the Throne Speech scheduled for tomorrow, we look back at what happened to the pledges made in last year’s legislative blueprint - which was shorter than usual because of the Covid-19 emergency.
Of 22 key pledges made last year, nearly half, 10,...
DATE: Nov 04, 2021
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Politics
A global agreement on minimum corporate tax rates has approved an exclusion for the island’s international insurance industry.
Curtis Dickinson, the minister of finance welcomed the carve-out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developm...
DATE: Oct 15, 2021
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Politics
Government is discussing a carve-out for the island’s international insurance industry in multilateral discussions towards a new global agreement on a minimum corporate tax rate.
Finance minister Curtis Dickinson said the carve-out was one of the iss...
DATE: Jul 19, 2021
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International Business
The finance minister Curtis Dickinson yesterday refused to publicly divulge which countries are allied with Bermuda in the international discussions of the global tax initiative set to come to a head this October.
But he will soon reconstitute the Ta...
DATE: Jul 17, 2021
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Economy