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The effort to collect overdue taxes is to be stepped up, the finance minister warned yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said a tax amnesty could also be introduced to help claw back some of the cash owed by taxpayers. Mr Dickinson said taxpayers would be gi...

Bermuda’s new Budget has the “largest capital spending plan in a decade”, the finance minister said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said the financial blueprint for the year had “increased grants and contributions to invest in our communities”. He said...

Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance delivering the Budget for 2020-21 at the House of Assembly today. Here are the highlights from his speech: • Programmes in the Department of Child and Family Services will receive an increase of $750,000. Som...

The Auditor-General has called on the Government to take action over publicly funded bodies that have failed to release their audited financial statements. Heather Thomas revealed 29 public authorities were in arrears of more than 100 years of financ...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Residents highlighted greater support for the underprivileged, seniors and people with mental health problems as areas for improvement as The Royal Gazette hit the streets of Hamilton to canvass views on the Progressive Labour Party’s performance in ...

Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed. Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”. The senior economics lecturer at Ber...

Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

Curtis Dickinson will discuss his second budget before a business audience next week. The finance minister, who is scheduled to present the 2020-21 Budget Statement in the House of Assembly on Friday, will appear on an expert panel at the Chamber of ...

A spotlight will be turned on employers who “steal” from their staff by failing to deposit social insurance and pension contributions, the Minister of Finance warned last night. Curtis Dickinson said he wanted to help workers keep better track of the...

The Government is to boost its capital spending to about $85 million, using revenue such as new cruise ship taxes, to revamp the island’s infrastructure in the 2020-21 fiscal year. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, made the revelation after ...

An Opposition MP fears that the police budget could be cut by $4 million. Ben Smith, the Shadow Minister of National Security, asked yesterday if the island could afford to “slash” spending on law enforcement. He said: “I am greatly concerned by repo...