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With the announcement that Curtis Dickinson resigned his Cabinet post came the obvious question: who will take his place? Since the Progressive Labour Party returned to power in 2017, the Government has had two finance ministers. Several legislators ...

Curtis Dickinson, a career banker who transitioned to politics in 2018, brought substantial private sector experience, particularly overseas, to his career as finance minister under the Progressive Labour Party. One of his top roles as minister was u...

Expect a lot of political shots fired during this year’s budget debate, and expect focused questions and observations during the annual Chamber of Commerce Budget Breakfast. Losing Curtis Dickinson is unfortunate. He won widespread respect as finance...

Tickets are now available for the annual Budget Breakfast hosted by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce. The event will be held via Zoom on February 28, the Monday following the delivery of the Budget Statement in the House of Assembly by Curtis Dickinso...

A lack of cash may slow efforts to repair Bermuda’s roads, a government backbencher has warned. Christopher Famous said in an opinion piece published in The Royal Gazette today, that the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic would continue into 20...

February meant the Budget for 2021-22 and all eyes trained on Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, as he unveiled the first pandemic Budget. The document was short on good news, but there was a promise to get the country back to a Budget surplu...

A report on the status of Bermuda’s criminal injuries compensation system is set to be put before the House of Assembly at its next session. It comes after reports that the was “severely backlogged”, resulting in victims of violent crime waiting year...

The finance minister yesterday insisted that price controls were unlikely to be introduced to combat inflation. Curtis Dickinson said that the Covid pandemic would continue to hit the economy, but that he did not expect next year’s Budget to be a “ha...

Bermudians will have to wait until next year’s Budget to see if changes to tariff regulations will have financial implications, the Senate was told yesterday. Adrianna Hodgson, junior finance minister, said amendments to laws bringing the island into...

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...

Higher than expected Government revenues this year have been overtaken by pandemic-related expenses, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told the House that estimated revenues for the year would be $8 mil...

A report into alleged historic land grabs and a revised Budget statement will dominate the House of Assembly’s final session of the year today. It is understood that the Commission of Inquiry, which held its last hearings in May, completed the report...