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Stalled financing for an international arbitration centre in Hamilton should have been reckoned with before the plans to build the facility got announced two years ago, the Opposition has charged.
Craig Cannonier, the Shadow Minister of Works and Eng...
DATE: Aug 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An international arbitration centre planned for Hamilton is likely to have to share its premises with other offices so that construction costs can be repaid.
The facility for settling disputes, to be named after the former Progressive Labour Party MP...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Two Bermuda MPs and the island’s Clerk to the Legislature had a place at the table for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference that wrapped up today in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The delegation, with government MP Jamahl Simmons, Opposition MP Susan Jac...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government’s emergency spending in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic is under the microscope of the bipartisan Public Accounts Committee.
Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition and chairman of the PAC, said the group continued to examine healt...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s newest hotel is now slated to open on June 1 instead of March next year, but work is going like ‘gangbusters’
DATE: Aug 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
No-fishing zones off Bermuda totalling 90,000 sq km have been proposed, along with an investment centre to drive economic investment in local waters.
The fish sanctuaries, with plans to court overseas investors to the island, were unveiled by Water R...
DATE: Aug 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Eight “knowledge-packed” weeks of paid summer internships offered by the City of Hamilton will conclude today.
The city hired 13 students from a pool of more than 110 applicants.
Each intern got linked with a mentor to guide them through duties and l...
DATE: Aug 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A central “neighbourhood commercial centre” and new housing for seniors at Burrows Hill are among “opportunity sites” to revitalise St David’s, a community plan has revealed.
Residents want rid of the unsightly “boat graveyard” at Ship’s Wharf, where...
DATE: Aug 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health officials yesterday said there has been a modest drop in Covid-19 cases, with 121 people infected and five people in hospital.
At the island’s last update on August 17, there were 144 active cases with seven people undergoing hospital treatmen...
DATE: Aug 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 57-year-old female visitor to Bermuda who drowned while swimming at Horseshoe Bay on Saturday has been named by police as Judy Severe.
She was said to be among several visiting cruise ship passengers who went to the beach in Southampton.
A police s...
DATE: Aug 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell