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Three Cabinet ministers will be on hand tonight at an information session on the Bermuda Government’s airport redevelopment plan. Finance minister Bob Richards, transport minister Shawn Crockwell and economic development minister Grant Gibbons will b...

Bermuda is well on the road to recovery after Hurricane Joaquin, the acting Premier said yesterday. “Bermuda appears to have weathered the storm well and already we are getting back to normal,” Bob Richards said. “The vast majority of residents rema...

Three leading international experts in public policy finance have been appointed to serve as members of the newly created Fiscal Responsibility Panel. According to the Bermuda Government, the panel will increase transparency and international credibi...

Dear Sir, I caught some of Opposition Leader Marc Bean’s interview on the Sherri J radio show, during which he said of the Finance Minister’s defamation lawsuit against Bermuda Public Service Union head Jason Hayward: “Just drop it.” Having read som...

Dear Sir, Some time ago I read in The Royal Gazette that Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, was being interviewed about the intended airport and he got very arrogant in his answers, saying the number bombers had it all wrong and yet he, as the o...

Dear Sir, Disbeliever’s letter (August 28) about the hypocrisy of the People’s Campaign, trying to stop people talking about its claims that Bob Richards’s libel suit was an attempt to shut down their freedom of speech, must have been hot news for ma...

Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has said the Bermuda Government will not have to foot the bill for his libel case against union boss Jason Hayward. Mr Richards said the matter — which led to a succession of objections from unions and other org...

The Progressive Labour Party attacked a government defamation suit against Jason Hayward, adding that it is wrong to use public funds for a private matter. The PLP also questioned this afternoon why neither the Auditor-General nor Governor George Fer...

Bermuda’s politicians are, rightly, being upbraided in some quarters for elevating magical thinking to the status of guiding philosophical principle. Wishing something to happen and actually making it happen are very different things. One involves w...

Finance Minister Bob Richards has reiterated his case for the need to draw investment into Bermuda, responding to a suggestion by economist Craig Simmons that the strategy was skewed and over-reliant on overseas capital. In The Royal Gazette yesterda...

The Prison Officers Association has become the latest group to throw its support behind Jason Hayward, who is being sued by Government. Mr Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Service Union, has become the subject of a government-funded defam...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers has joined the number of unions speaking out against a Bermuda Government lawsuit against Jason Hayward. Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, formally launched a defamation lawsuit — to be paid for by the Government — ...