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A charity dedicated to the welfare of women got a $3,500 cash boost from the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club this week.
The Women’s Resource Centre were given the cash after the hotel raised funds during Women’s Month in March.
The hotel raised $1,7...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
People suffering hardship because of coronavirus pandemic can withdraw an extra $6,000 from their pension funds, the finance minister announced yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said he had “wrestled with the decision” to allow people another round of acc...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel are expected to discuss finance arrangements for its refurbishment in the next month, the finance minister revealed yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said Gencom, the owners of the shuttered Fairmont Southampton, had s...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A bill of $5.3 million for unemployment benefits in just three months highlighted the economic impact of the latest coronavirus outbreak, the finance minister said yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said benefits had been paid to 4,938 people since March an...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A substantial donation has brought a new shelter for homeless women and their children closer to the finish line.
Aspen, an insurance and reinsurance firm, gave $25,000 to Habitat for Humanity Bermuda earlier this month to help create its Transformat...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Construction of a fish processing plant promised for the East End is expected to begin before the end of the financial year next March, MPs have heard.
Business and design plans for the shoreside plant at Marginal Wharf in St David’s are being examin...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A dispute over a roadside hedge near an accident hotspot could end with the landowner being ordered to move the bushes.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, told MPs on Friday that the best solution might “appease the majority o...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government’s 50th annual summer day camps are to go ahead on July 5, with online registration starting from 9.30am next Wednesday.
Camps, for children aged four to 14, cost $60 a week.
Enrolment can be done through the Department of Youth, Sport ...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new plan guiding “the development of Bermuda for many years to come” was tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly.
Tabling The Bermuda Plan 2018 Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, told MPs: “It is the product of consultation with the public...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A minimum wage is not recommended for workers aged under 18 or staff in family businesses who are related to the owner, a special report said yesterday.
The independent Wage Commission report, tabled in the House of Assembly, also recommended that li...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell