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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is embarking on a very ambitious city project called Neom. The name means “new future”. The idea is to set a new beginning for the youth of Saudi and in reality, the world. This project is not characteri...

A network of privacy experts could develop in Bermuda after the introduction of legislation designed to protect personal information, the island’s new Privacy Commissioner has predicted. Alexander White explained that the sector was a “boom industry”...

The island’s first privacy watchdog said he planned to visit community groups to find out how the collection of personal information affected people. Alexander White will also canvass businesses as he considers what should be included in guidelines f...

Process times for some planning applications will be “greatly reduced” thanks to a new scheme, the home affairs minister pledged today. Walter Roban said that the change allowed the Development Applications Board to delegate the power to grant or re...

Dramatic changes to the Bermuda National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pension) Act 1998, the contributory benefit pension plan designed for all eligible employees in the private sector workforce, were announced by the Bermuda Government last month. A...

The owners of a food truck have applied for permission to set up shop on a gap site on Front Street in Hamilton. A planning application, submitted in December by Generosas, proposed an outdoor food court at 81 Front Street featuring the Generosa’s fo...

Dear Sir, It was with interest that I read the article ”Couple left in the lurch over unpaid pension”. I am saddened that Catherine Gregory has been terribly inconvenienced by the failure to receive what she rightfully earned. What is even sadder is...

The former owners of land earmarked for a quarry said they had not expected the site to be worked when they sold it. Katherina Harlow, whose family sold the land at Judkin Lane, Hamilton Parish, in January 2019, said they had expected a house to be b...

Visitors to vacation rental properties plunged by 3,000 in a nine-month period in 2019. Mike Cranfield, of Cranfield’s Property Group, said the decline coincided with the introduction of a 4.5 per cent tax on vacation rental bookings through services...

A renowned environmentalist has called for a proposed quarry in a protected area to be scrapped. David Wingate said the quarry, which would be sited on a woodland-zoned area on Judkin Lane, Hamilton Parish, was against planning policy. He said: “We c...

In his speech to the Progressive Labour Party and in his later curtailed statement to the House of Assembly last month, David Burt provided some details on the Government’s plans to allow holders of private pension funds to withdraw a portion of the ...

Plans have been submitted to turn a vacant site on Church Street into a six-storey apartment block. The application, put forward by C33 Ltd last month, proposed a 68-unit apartment building at 33 Church Street. The documents state the building will h...