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Bermuda’s tourism industry will be led by “an entrepreneurial and vibrant group” that will “drive Bermuda’s re-emergence as a world-class tourism destination”, it has been claimed.
Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell this afternoon unveiled the eight-me...
DATE: Dec 19, 2013
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The Opposition Progressive Labour Party has stepped up its attack on Government following a telephone conversation between Premier Craig Cannonier and PLP leader Marc Bean last week.
According to the Premier, the subject of a planned referendum on ga...
DATE: Dec 19, 2013
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Shadow Home Affairs Minister Walter Roban is calling on Government to clarify the status of a planned $300 million redevelopment of Hamilton’s waterfront.
And he pointed out that the controversial development, put together more than a year ago by the...
DATE: Dec 18, 2013
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Corporation of Hamilton councillors will receive more than $120,000 in back payments for attending committee meetings — just days after an independent inquiry into the municipality found evidence of widespread maladministration.
But the decision to g...
DATE: Dec 17, 2013
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Councillor Keith Davis is set to pick up a Christmas bonus of around $20,000 this week, while Alderman Carlton Simmons can expect to take home more than $16,000.
The two men are the leading earners on the Corporation’s nine-man elected board, sitting...
DATE: Dec 17, 2013
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Rampant maladministration at the Corporation of Hamilton has “crept up at every corner in a dazzling, infinite, relentless variety and wilfulness of ways” according to an independent probe into the municipality.
And Ombudsman Arlene Brock has conclud...
DATE: Dec 14, 2013
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Ombudsman Arlene Brock has suggested that the controversial agreement to redevelop Hamilton’s waterfront should ideally be scrapped because the process was littered with irregularities.
Although the investigation initially intended to examine “genera...
DATE: Dec 14, 2013
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The Corporation of Hamilton is being run by an “inner core” of just three elected officials, according to Ombudsman Arlene Brock.
Although nine councillors were elected on the Team Hamilton ticket, rumours of a split within the group have circulated ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2013
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Public services could be revolutionised under a new system that puts them in the hands of employees who will have a financial stake in their operation.
And Finance Minister Bob Richards said the concept, known as mutualisation, could provide economic...
DATE: Dec 13, 2013
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A group of former Regiment commanders campaigning to keep conscription have been condemned as “misguided former soldiers who have no regard for human rights”.
And the eight ex-servicemen have also come under fire for being “the primary beneficiaries ...
DATE: Dec 13, 2013
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