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The Budget showed the Government had listened to hoteliers’ fears over rising land taxes, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday. Stephen Todd, CEO of the BHA, said hoteliers were pleased that Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, confirmed t...

There is reason to celebrate the first Budget surplus in many many years, but the way in which that surplus was achieved sullies things. An accounting sleight of hand shuffled the “mandatory” sinking fund contribution to capital spending thereby avoi...

The foreign currency purchase tax will be inflationary, putting up prices for Bermudians as almost everything is imported and paid for in foreign currency. This will push up the cost of doing business and will be passed on to the consumer through hig...

Community workers want to know more about government funding of crime-fighting programmes, an activist said yesterday. Desmond Crockwell, chief editor of anti-violence magazine Visionz, said people involved in intervention programmes would like to kn...

A $300,000 grant to help poorer students study at Bermuda College will continue into the next fiscal year. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said the Paget college was “a key stakeholder in the economic growth and development of our island”...

Almost half-a-million dollars will go towards the introduction of a new pupil grading system, the finance minister announced yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that $473,000 would be used “to continue the implementation of a standards-based grading sys...

The Minister of Finance has delivered a 2019-20 Budget Statement that strives to address the concerns of many stakeholders. It’s a delicate balance, and for that he is to be congratulated. After the Tax Reform Commission’s Report and the Pre-Budget R...

A move to set up a government-backed mortgage lender is a “wantonly unfair” use of public money, the shadow finance minister said yesterday. Nick Kempe also warned that the Progressive Labour Party’s plan to lend cash to public service employees was ...

The 2019-20 Budget Statement is under way. Curtis Dickinson, Minister of Finance, is making his maiden Budget presentation in the House of Assembly. The Royal Gazette is providing a live stream and text updates on this page, as well as Twitter updat...

A body representing Bermuda’s business community says the island needs to focus on growing its tax base of businesses and individuals, rather than increasing the tax burden on those already here. A similar message has come from Sean Whiting, owner of...

The Progressive Labour Party faced discord among its own supporters over fears that Bermudian families are being left out in the cold, political sources claimed. David Burt, the Premier, and Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, were thought to ...

Bermudian voters are politically astute and they have proven that they are no pushovers. Between 1998 and 2017 we have been see-sawing between the two political parties. But there comes a time when the voters themselves need to take stock of their ch...