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Details of a $170,000-a-year consultancy contract at the island’s troubled incinerator are being kept under wraps by the Government. Wayne Furbert, acting minister for public works at the time, confirmed last month that a project engineer had been hi...

The Opposition’s Budget reply was last night criticised by government MPs as too long – but short on substance. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, attacked a claim by Cole Simons’, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, that payroll tax wou...

A government minister off work ill for about six months has returned to the job, the Premier announced last night. David Burt said Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, was “back at his desk” after being on sick leave since Septe...

A project engineer has been hired to consult on refurbishment works at Tynes Bay Waste-to-Energy facility, with work expected to take three to four years to “engineer, tender procure and execute”. Wayne Furbert, the acting Minister of Public Works, t...

The Mayor of Hamilton yesterday stayed tight-lipped over the Government’s decision to postpone elections for the island’s two municipalities for a year. Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, said he could not comment until he had seen the legislati...

With the announcement that Curtis Dickinson resigned his Cabinet post came the obvious question: who will take his place? Since the Progressive Labour Party returned to power in 2017, the Government has had two finance ministers. Several legislators ...

The shock resignation of Curtis Dickinson as finance minister today drew mixed reactions from political commentators. Some politicians said that the Progressive Labour Party administration would be wounded by the loss. But others argued that the gov...

The government should update details on spending habits so it can better calculate the rate of inflation, a top economist has said. Craig Simmons said that a consumer spending survey had not been conducted since 2013 – and that shopping habits had ch...

Leadership in innovation has been celebrated by the economic development department. The department presented awards to three technology entrepreneurs. It was followed by awards to school-aged winners of pitches from companies who wanted problems sol...

A bust-up over the state of the Tynes Bay incinerator heated up yesterday as the Government was accused of failure to act on promises of investment in the plant that dated back decades. A major announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the publ...

It is a fairly simple task to pillory Wayne Furbert for his recent ham-handed handling of plans to reform the Bermuda Post Office. The Minister for the Cabinet Office blundered into a storm of controversy when he defended plans to have the Post Offi...