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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly has launched an attack on the last Governor and police service and compared them to a lynch mob.
Derrick Burgess said reports that Ewart Brown, a former Progressive Labour Party premier, was to face corrup...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Government Senator claimed yesterday that the transfer of the L Frederick Wade International Airport to a public private partnership was directly connected to the financial struggles some Bermudians are facing now.
Owen Darrell, the junior minist...
DATE: Dec 02, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Most homeowners will not see an increase in land tax bills next year after the Government postponed a review of property values in the wake of the Covid-19 economic crisis, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The tax is calculated on the annual rental valu...
DATE: Nov 20, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Last month's General Election cost the taxpayer almost $700,000, it has been revealed.
But Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, highlighted that the figure was much less than critics had predicted after Premier David Burt had called the snap p...
DATE: Nov 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government’s predicted Budget deficit of $19.8 million has ballooned to $295 million, the finance minister revealed today.
Curtis Dickinson said the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to cost Government hundreds of millions of dollars and present Be...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Almost one third of the Island’s 1,400 Permanent Resident Certificate holders have applied for status in the past five months, according to Government.
The Ministry of Home Affairs released the figure yesterday after earlier failing to provide inform...
DATE: Oct 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The One Bermuda Alliance’s decision to appoint a former civil servant as a media consultant has been condemned by the Opposition.
Magnus Henagulph was taken on by the ruling party last week after quitting his post at the Department of Communications ...
DATE: Sep 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The findings of an inquiry into the disappearance of $300,000 in campaign donations to the One Bermuda Alliance are still being kept under wraps — more than two months after the investigation was launched.
In May, Thad Hollis, the party chairman, ann...
DATE: Jul 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Progressive Labour Party has pledged to fight to close a legal loophole that enables Permanent Residency Certificate holders to be granted Bermudian status, claiming that “Bermudians have to come first in their own country”.
And at a public forum...
DATE: Jun 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A plan to refurbish or sell off Government-owned properties that are empty will provide value for money for taxpayers, it has been claimed.
Speaking in the House of Assembly on Friday, Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin revealed that Gover...
DATE: Jun 09, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan