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First-quarter fiscal performance figures for 2019 were released by the Ministry of Finance yesterday. Revenues for the three months ending in June were $266.5 million, $6.4 million higher than in June 2018. A ministry spokeswoman said that the prima...

Legislation to suspend mandatory payments into the Sinking Fund was passed by senators last week without major opposition. The Government Loans Amendment Act 2019, along with the Electricity Amendment Act 2019 and the Bermuda Economic Development Cor...

A press release that gave wrong information on the imposition of credit card service charges for payments to the Government was “an inexcusable error”, the Minister of Finance said . Curtis Dickinson added: “Contrary to established protocols, the rel...

The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate said the Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney-General had made a “mockery” of the Budget debate process. Nick Kempe of the One Bermuda Alliance explained that the Opposition allotted two hours for debate o...

A plan for government-backed mortgages risked increasing debt and “driving a wedge between the public and private sectors” an opposition MP said yesterday. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin of the One Bermuda Alliance said that helping Bermudians to acquire pr...

Smaller cars could be on the cards for the Cabinet to cut costs, the public works minister has warned. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said that there was no need for the number of full-size sedans run by the Government. He added that downsizing effor...

More than $75,000 set aside for municipal elections will probably be used elsewhere because the Corporations of Hamilton and St George’s are to be turned into unelected quangos, the House of Assembly has heard. Walton Brown, the Cabinet Office minist...

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” — Mark Twain As you observe the One Bermuda Alliance, a distinct pattern emerges. A pattern of half-truths, innuendos and outright fabrication. Over the years, it ha...

The Government had a number of choices by which it could balance the 2019-20 Budget — mainly raise taxes or reduce spending. The Progressive Labour Party bristles at the “tax and spend” moniker, but that is exactly what it has done since it came to p...

Extra cash from cost savings in the Department of Education have gone to finance special programmes, the Minister of Education said. Diallo Rabain told the House of Assembly that there was no increase in the department’s $114 million budget, but it ...

The Progressive Labour Party, via the Minister of Finance, has expressed the belief that the national Budget must reflect not just the times in which we live, but also our core values: protecting the vulnerable, expanding opportunity, employing the u...

Chocolate and sugar-laden breakfast cereals will be affected by the sugar tax from the start of next month, the Government said yesterday. However, drinks with artificial sweeteners instead of sugar will be excluded from the hikes. A spokeswoman for...