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The Bermuda Government will look to consolidate schools, cap financial assistance and suspend the Agricultural Exhibition for a year to cut public sector spending by $6.4 million. The cost-cutting measures were backed by the Bermuda Trade Union Congr...

Over the past week, the social landscape of Bermuda has been vastly redefined. We all know the minute details of what led to the three-day work stoppage and occupation of Cabinet grounds. We all know of the insulting remarks made towards the workers...

Hindsight, as they say Mr Editor, is 20/20 vision. It is easy to say that they should have done this or they should not have done that. Nonetheless, there are always lessons to be learned from looking back. As I watched this week’s events unfold, I g...

Behind the drama being played out in front of Cabinet Office this week looms a stark reality — that if the Bermuda Government does not soon start spending much less and/or earning much more, it is only a matter of time before fiscal collapse. While p...

The consolidation of schools and the suspension of the Agricultural Exhibition for a year are among a series of cost-cutting measures that have been agreed by the Bermuda Government and the Bermuda Trade Union Congress. This according to Finance Mini...

The One Bermuda Alliance was elected to office based in part on promises to restore order and a sense of fiscal responsibility to our public spending. But almost two years on, the Island’s debt remains the gargantuan white elephant stampeding around ...

The Progressive Labour Party has broken its silence as industrial unrest triggered by an impasse over the continuation of furloughs for government workers reaches a third day. Opposition leader Marc Bean, in a statement, has called on the Bermuda Gov...

Yesterday’s march on the Cabinet Office came after a year-and-a-half of talks aimed at reducing government spending while preserving jobs and wages. In July 2013 public sector workers and Government agreed to a two-year package consisting of a 4.6 pe...