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Legislators will return to the House of Assembly today to debate last week’s Throne Speech.
Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition, will deliver the One Bermuda Alliance’s Reply to the Throne Speech and the debate is expected to go on much of the ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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An 18-year-old record-breaking runner was yesterday identified as the victim of a fatal weekend crash.
Clevonte Lodge-Bean was named by the Berkeley Institute, where he studied, in a letter to staff and pupils.
The Bermuda National Athletics Associat...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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Borrowers and mortgage-holders will receive “enhanced protection” when new legislation is brought to Parliament, it was announced today.
And Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said landlords and tenants would see laws governing their rights...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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Plans to offer long term residency for investors in Bermuda will not equate to cash for citizenship, Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said this afternoon.
Mr Hayward was speaking on the Government’s plans to revise the long-term residential certif...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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Redundancy payments to ex-Fairmont Southampton workers will be honoured by the Government, the finance minister promised tonight.
Curtis Dickinson said the wait for their severance packages had had a “searing impact” on about 750 staff who were laid ...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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This year’s Throne Speech was “realistic” in laying out what could be accomplished in the coming legislative session, David Burt, the Premier said yesterday.
The Government’s digital bank, billed as the world’s first state-sponsored institution of i...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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The Remembrance Day observance will be a closed event, the public was reminded.
The grounds of the Cabinet Office will be closed on Wednesday from 9.30am, along with Front Street between Queen and King Streets; Parliament Street between Front and Re...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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An unstable rock face that threatened to collapse on a stretch of the Railway Trail has been shored up.
The section of trail at Bailey’s Bay, Hamilton Parish, had to be closed earlier this year for repairs.
It is now open for walkers along North Shor...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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The public was tonight “strongly urged” to send off their Christmas post to Britain by noon tomorrow.
The Bermuda Post Office said that border closures in the UK and a halt to flights out as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic would affec...
DATE: Nov 09, 2020
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Bermuda is poised to ask for more power to run its own affairs after the British government allowed the island to draw up “areas for constitutional reform”, the Throne Speech has revealed.
The speech, the blueprint for business for the new session o...
DATE: Nov 09, 2020
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