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A plan to hire a PR agency to help the Government’s workforce development department boost its image has been dropped.
Businesses were asked to submit tenders last October for a campaign designed to generate a better image for the service.
A governme...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Diners are invited to help promote island restaurants by sharing video reviews on social media.
This year’s Bermuda Restaurant Weeks starts on Thursday and will run until February 3.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority released a list last week of 49 eater...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A British attempt to force overseas territories to produce public registers of beneficial company ownership has sparked a war of words in the UK’s House of Commons.
Dame Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP who helped to lead a cross-party alliance of MPs tha...
DATE: Jan 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A container ship bound for Mexico is expected to be met off the coast of Bermuda tonight after a crew member suffered a suspected broken ankle.
The Polar Mexico was travelling from Bremerhaven, Germany, to the port city of Altamira when the 46-year-o...
DATE: Jan 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A woman died after a house fire yesterday, police confirmed last night. The 74-year-old victim was rushed to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after she was found unconscious, but later pronounced dead.
Sergeant Allan Wilkinson of the Bermuda Fir...
DATE: Jan 11, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A teenage girl who died suddenly this week has had an online fundraising page set up in her memory by a cousin who lives overseas.
Kiara Paiva, who was 15, was found unconscious in her Hamilton Parish home on Monday and later pronounced dead by docto...
DATE: Jan 11, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A digitised national identity scheme planned for Bermuda could be used by millions of people worldwide, a leader of the project said yesterday.
Bruce Silcoff, the chief executive of blockchain technology firm Shyft, said three jurisdictions were keep...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda will become a global hub for new digital industries, a blockchain pioneer predicted yesterday.
Bruce Silcoff, the chief executive of Shyft, said yesterday the island could be a leader in a “fourth industrial revolution”.
Shyft signed a memora...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions.
Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Tough new European Union rules designed to combat tax avoidance can be turned to Bermuda’s advantage, a top manager at professional services firm KPMG said yesterday.
Will McCallum, a KPMG managing director, said turmoil caused by the Economic Substa...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter