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Budding e-commerce entrepreneurs can sign up for a new series of workshops to help them get their businesses up and running.
Government’s Inspire eBusiness initiative kicks off this week with a number of classes on topics such as building a website a...
DATE: Feb 03, 2014
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Island retailers had a miserable Christmas according to the latest figures, with sales for December 2013 falling short of previous years.
According to Government’s Department of Statistics, the Retail Sales Index fell 2.2 percent in December, with co...
DATE: Feb 01, 2014
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A team of Bermuda Police officers has been selected to investigate the apparent suicide of a policeman in the Cayman Islands.
The body of Police Constable Raphael Williams was discovered on January 12, just two days after the 45-year-old officer was ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2014
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Government officials have been condemned after a historic burial site protected by strict Planning orders was “razed to the ground”.
And Ombudsman Arlene Brock described the lack of action by bureaucrats to enforce protection orders on the Tucker’s T...
DATE: Feb 01, 2014
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Crown lawyers are struggling to provide a “first rate prosecution service” because of increasing workloads and understaffing within the Department of Public Prosecutions.
And a drive to cut costs through pay cuts and furloughs is having a “moral defl...
DATE: Jan 28, 2014
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The executive director of the US organisation set to bring hundreds of delegates to Bermuda for a conference insists she is still working for the group.
But claims by Vanessa Williams that she remains employed by the National Conference of Black Mayo...
DATE: Jan 28, 2014
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Government is helping some unemployed Bermudians brush up on their cleaning skills to help them find work.
A two-week training course teaching students about basic types of cleaning agents, as well as “soft skills” training such as time management an...
DATE: Jan 28, 2014
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A conference hosted by the Corporation of Hamilton that promised to bring hundreds of overseas dignitaries to the Island may be scrapped after questions were raised about the credibility of one of the organisers.
Last year the Corporation revealed it...
DATE: Jan 27, 2014
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Bermuda residents have more disposable income in their pockets than a decade ago, according to new financial statistics.
And they are spending more of their earnings on entertainment and recreation than they did in 2004, while spending on housing, cl...
DATE: Jan 25, 2014
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Businessman Harold Darrell is planning to take legal action against the Government, claiming that Premier Craig Cannonier has broken a pre-election pledge to address misconduct by Government officials.
Mr Darrell filed a complaint against a senior la...
DATE: Jan 25, 2014
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