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The owner of a tech company hired to set up an online payment portal for the Government has explained why about $1.7 million in revenue had not yet been passed on.
Denis Pitcher, the chief executive of ResQwest and also a fintech adviser to the Gover...
DATE: Dec 01, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government paid out $11 million to redundant hotel workers at the Fairmont Southampton without an agreement from owner Gencom that the money would be paid back, it was revealed today.
Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, added that the Governm...
DATE: Nov 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government has failed to collect more than $1.7 million in fees paid through an online Covid-19 travel authorisation portal on its website, it was confirmed today.
Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly that tech firm ResQwest was hired by Governm...
DATE: Nov 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Bermuda Hospitals Board is haemorrhaging cash through unearned overtime payments to senior doctors, it has been claimed.
Complaints have been filed against one doctor accused of regularly walking off the job after completion of his rounds midway ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The president of the Bermuda Industrial Union yesterday defended dock-workers who downed tools after a colleague was suspended.
Chris Furbert said that 32 union members at Hamilton Docks took action last Thursday after relations with management compa...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Former government minister and real estate agent Leonard Gibbons has died.
Mr Gibbons was 82.
Mr Gibbons’s daughter, Susan Gray, said her father was an honest and generous man who was very outgoing in his public life.
Ms Gray added: “Dad was a people...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A seventh Bermuda Hospitals Board staff member has tested positive for the coronavirus, it has been confirmed.
The staff member was one of two new cases identified by Government yesterday.
A BHB spokeswoman said: “One of the cases reported by Governm...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hamilton dock-workers returned to work yesterday after the Government stepped in to bring six days of disruptions to an end.
Staff were ordered to return to work on Tuesday night after Jason Hayward, the labour minister, referred the dispute to the L...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hamilton dock-workers were last night ordered back to work by Labour Minister Jason Hayward after mediation efforts to end the seven-day slowdown on the docks failed.
A Government statement said mediation efforts over “the last few days” had failed...
DATE: Nov 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Police have launched an inquiry after an allegation of theft from the offices of the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses.
The Royal Gazette understands that intruders are suspected of rifling through documents and files stored at the comm...
DATE: Nov 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan