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Many have questioned why furlough days were imposed on public transport, requiring other workers to step in to fill the service. According to Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell, this was a necessary consequence of furloughs being imposed across the G...

Michael Weeks, the Shadow Minister for Community, Culture and Sport, has berated the Bermuda Government for its “across-the-board cuts” to services that struggling families depend on. Mr Weeks described the budget cuts outlined by Patricia Gordon-Pam...

Programmes to help businesses set up have already started to bear fruit, according to Grant Gibbons, Minister of Economic Development. Dr Gibbons hailed the work of the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) and the Business Development Unit in he...

Government funding for the financial assistance programme has increased by 5 per cent for the upcoming financial year. But the rest of the Ministry of Community, Culture and Sport has been subject to significant cash cuts to tackle Bermuda’s debt cri...

The construction of Bermuda’s first solar farm near the airport is still potentially on the cards, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons has revealed. Dr Gibbons told the House of Assembly on Wednesday that the Department of Energy would develo...

New customs duty legislation designed to raise revenue for Government has been passed by the House of Assembly. The Customs Tariff Amendment Act 2015 will raise fuel duty by five cents a litre from next month, generating $9.6 million in additional re...

Parents will be awarded more say in the administration and reform of Bermuda’s public schools, under legislation approved by Parliament. The Education Amendment Act 2015 will redress a long-standing lack of communication, parental involvement, transp...

Bermuda will continue to look to the space and satellite industry in the next financial year to generate extra revenue. Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly that capital funding of $390,000 was dedicated to Satellite...

The Registrar of Companies Department is predicted to bring in more than $65 million in revenue in the next financial year, according to Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons. Dr Gibbons told the House in his Budget presentation yesterday that ...

Bermuda has had four imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease Chikungunya that has spread throughout the Caribbean, MPs were told during the Budget debate on Monday. As of January 21, the Department of Health had reported three cases, saying that...

Conservation Services’ battle to tackle invasive species and preserve the Island’s endemic fauna and flora has made significant strides, according to Environment Minister Jeanne Atherden. Detailing how their $4.6 million budget would be distributed i...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board is expected to run out of cash “in the near future” — and must find $40 million to pay for additional costs owing to the new acute care wing during the coming fiscal year. Minister of Health, Seniors and Environment Jeanne...