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Bermuda needs to develop a master plan for hotel development on the Island that includes faster regulation, changes to labour practices and the offer of financial incentives.
That was the conclusion reached by attendees at the recent Hotel Developmen...
DATE: Jul 08, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public school teachers may be able to carry on working until the age of 70 under proposed changes to the law tabled in the House of Assembly this morning.
Currently teachers have to retire on their 65th birthday — regardless of when that date falls w...
DATE: Jul 06, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Car drivers will have to pass an auxiliary cycle proficiency test if they wish to swap four wheels for two, after Senators passed legislation amending driving license laws.
Laws drafted almost 60 years ago enabled motor car license holders to legally...
DATE: Jul 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Parliamentarians could be in for a long night when the state of the Island’s hospitals is debated in the House of Assembly during today’s session.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has put forward a take note motion on a review of the Bermuda H...
DATE: Jul 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva has issued a robust defence of the running of Bermuda’s hospitals under his watch.
Mr DeSilva, who was Health Minister between November 2010 and December 2012, spoke out after the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) reve...
DATE: Jul 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
New employment contracts accepted by staff at a fast-food restaurant are exactly the same as those they rejected on the advice of union bosses more than a year ago.
And the Bermuda Industrial Union will now have to pay legal costs after it abandoned ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Taxpayers will be hit with a six-figure bill after the former Government launched a doomed bid to get a legal ruling overturned.
Yesterday The Royal Gazette revealed that Government had hired a costly legal team to appeal the decisions of two indepen...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
For years it remained a political hot potato that many Parliamentarians chose to avoid for fear of losing valuable votes.
But yesterday the once-controversial question of outlawing discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation overcame its fina...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A new Tourism Authority should be up and running by the end of the current Parliamentary session, according to Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell.
In January, Mr Crockwell announced plans to create the new, non-political body which would be responsible...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public transport schedules ground to a halt for almost three hours yesterday after Government staff attended a union meeting to discuss a new employment contract.
There was standing room only at the Seventh-day Adventist Church on King Street, where...
DATE: Jul 03, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
