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Plans to bring the public up to date on the work of the Office of the Auditor-General are under way, according to a statement. Heather Thomas, who was named Auditor-General last year, said the office was working on producing a series of audit reports...

Finance minister Bob Richards has defended budget cuts to Bermuda Hospitals Board operations as a one-off that will not impact clinical services. It comes after BHB bosses appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday and warned that the...

Growing pressures on an unsustainable healthcare system have caused serious financial difficulties for the Bermuda Hospitals Board, the Public Accounts Committee has heard. BHB bosses appeared before the PAC to explain the increasing financial challe...

The Bermuda Government spending on foreign consultants has fallen steadily since the One Bermuda Alliance came to power but the amount could be on the increase this year. More than $7.3 million is expected to be paid from the public purse to overseas...

Opposition Senate leader Renee Ming has raised concerns about the lack of funding going towards support groups for women. Ms Ming voiced fears that there was no funding going towards the Women’s Resource Centre and the Physical Abuse Centre as senato...

The 2017-18 Budget was approved by the Senate on Friday evening after more than 20 hours of debate on the estimates of expenditure for 25 government ministries. During the motion to adjourn, several senators spoke about the importance of the process ...

The estimates of revenue and expenditure in the 2017/18 budget were approved by MPs in the House of Assembly last night. The passing of the Appropriation Act 2017 signalled the end of over three weeks of debate during which Parliamentarians have lock...

The annual accounts of the Consolidated Fund of the Bermuda Government for 2015-16 have been given an unqualified audit opinion. Finance minister Bob Richards welcomed the news, which he pointed out was the Consolidated Fund’s fourth consecutive clea...

Progressive Labour Party Whip Lovitta Foggo took aim at the Bermuda Government’s education budget yesterday, branding parts of it “woefully inadequate”. It came as Cole Simons, the freshly appointed minister, told MPs that $126.991 million had been a...

The battle lines have been clearly drawn in the sand. We have had both the annual Budget speech by the Government, and the response from the Opposition. Neither were supposedly meant as election speeches, but in an election year, the probabilities ra...

The Department of Financial Assistance will have its budget trimmed by just over $1 million in the coming fiscal year, to $53.555 million for 2017-18. Nandi Outerbridge, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, also updated MPs yesterday on the ...

Child and Family Services has been budgeted $15.634 million for 2017-18, down 2 per cent on the previous fiscal year, according to Nandi Outerbridge, the Minister of Social Development and Sport. Mrs Outerbridge began her overview of the department w...