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Welcome to today's live coverage of the Budget debate. Stay tuned for live updates.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” — Abraham Lincoln If you listened to the Budget Statement delivered by David Burt on February 25...

Ground could be broken on a new fishing facility by the start of next year, the economy minister has revealed. Jason Hayward, the Minister of Economy and Labour, said during the budget debate on Monday that much progress had been made on the plan for...

Bermuda’s two hospitals had less than six days’ worth of cash in hand last December

Ministers denied the Premier and finance minister was hiding behind them with an insistence they announced budget cuts instead of doing it himself. David Burt, who took the finance minister’s portfolio after the shock resignation of Curtis Dickinson ...

As a public service, The Royal Gazette is making the so-called “Blue Book“ which details Government’s budget, available online. The Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Year 2022-2023 forms the basis of the annual Budget Debate and is almost...

The “irrational carnage” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be a major blow to Bermuda’s economy, an Opposition MP warned in the Budget debate. Michael Dunkley of the One Bermuda Alliance highlighted the size of Ukraine’s economy and resources and ...

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...

The Premier last night accused the Leader of the Opposition of misleading the public with his response to the 2022/23 Budget. Cole Simons, the OBA Leader, told the House that he had heard Bermuda had been moved onto the EU “grey list” because of a mi...

The Opposition’s Budget reply was last night criticised by government MPs as too long – but short on substance. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, attacked a claim by Cole Simons’, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, that payroll tax wou...

The Opposition’s Reply to the Budget statement amounted to “two hours of rhetoric” closer in tone to a Throne Speech reply, the economy and labour minister claimed yesterday. Jason Hayward told the House of Assembly that “all of Bermuda should be dis...

Welcome to The Royal Gazette’s live coverage of today’s House of Assembly. We will be bringing live updates of the main Budget debate, and much more