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Problems within the Department of Public Transport featured strongly as Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell delivered his budget brief yesterday. Mr Crockwell said Government hopes to introduce a new bus schedule this summer — the first new schedule in...

The Opposition’s record in government was assailed in Parliament by Premier Michael Dunkley after the One Bermuda Alliance was condemned as lacking in transparency and accountability. “Nonsense — arrant nonsense,” Mr Dunkley said in an exchange durin...

At least half of the jobs being created through the development of the Pink Beach Hotel will be promised to Bermudians, according to developer Sardis. There will be an estimated between 80 and 100 construction jobs and about 50 other jobs once the ...

Government overspent by almost $23 million across seven ministries in the 2014-15 fiscal year, according to supplemental estimates tabled this morning in the House of Assembly. The top “offender” was financial assistance, at $5.6 million, under the M...

The position of local construction chief Michael Butt on the board of Aecon, the Canadian giant in line for the Island’s airport redevelopment, has been cited as a major concern by the Opposition. Bob Richards, Finance Minister, maintained that Progr...

Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy is travelling to the Bahamas today to attend the Ninth International Labour Meeting. The meeting will be attended by labour ministers from across the Caribbean and will take place tomorrow and Wednesday. “I am parti...

Opposition Leader Marc Bean has decried the One Bermuda Alliance’s record of transparency, calling it “elusive, more so than any other time in the history of modern government in Bermuda”. The broadside came at the close of Premier Michael Dunkley’s ...

Education Minister Wayne Scott has said that the Bermuda Government would be considering school closures and consolidation of preschools and primary schools. He said that no decisions would be made without consultation with stakeholders. He announced...

One Bermuda Alliance backbencher Mark Pettingill likened the Opposition’s Reply to the Budget to a children’s television show, while the Opposition deemed Government’s policy uncaring and overly reliant on taxation. “Our philosophies are clearly diff...

Shawn Crockwell blamed a sickness bug for severe disruptions to the bus schedules that left hundreds of passengers stranded at various parts of the Island yesterday. The Transport Minister told his fellow ministers at the House of Assembly this morni...

Economic diversification, tourism and solutions for the civil service were high on the agenda in Shadow Finance Minster David Burt’s Reply to the Budget. In his delivery in the House of Assembly yesterday, Mr Burt also outlined the PLP’s long-term ec...

Tributes have been paid for a popular dentist and former MP who died this week. Dr Vincent Bridgewater was 74 when he passed away on Thursday. Former Premier Sir John Swan led the tributes for his friend and former UBP senator. “Vincent adopted a lot...