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The Leader of the Opposition announced a “new and robust Senate team” for the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday.
Cole Simons said Ben Smith will be the Opposition Leader in the Senate, and Shadow Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Community Affair...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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A planned luxury housing development has sold seven of its 18 high-end lots at the waterside site, it was revealed yesterday.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said reports of the sales at Riddell’s Bay, a former Warwick golf club that clos...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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Two “major player” telecoms companies are interested in installing undersea cables that would land in Bermuda, the home affairs minister revealed yesterday.
Mr Roban, the home affairs minister, said other firms linked to giants such as Google and Fac...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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“Unprecedented” unemployment in the island’s “worst jobs crisis in modern times” stands at double 2019 levels, the labour minister warned yesterday.
Jason Hayward said further losses were expected with “large scale redundancies in hospitality and fin...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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A veteran waiter at now-shuttered Fairmont Southampton forced to sleep rough after he was ordered to quit staff accommodation ten days ago said the way he was treated was “inhumane”.
George Uy, who had worked at the resort, for a decade, said he spen...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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The transport minister said today the Government had little space to bargain with airport operator Skyport after it announced it would hand over $15 million to the firm to cover lost revenue.
The cash is to cover the cost of the loss of business ove...
DATE: Nov 01, 2020
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The Registrar General said today his office was not the cause of major delays in the issuing of death certificates to grieving families.
Aubrey Pennyman was speaking after two families highlighted waits of months before they received the certificates...
DATE: Oct 30, 2020
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A grass roots group is to create a database on how to grow fresh food in a bid to promote a healthier and more self-sufficient population.
TeAnn Hassell, a professional chef and member of Social Justice Bermuda, said the group planned to have the sit...
DATE: Oct 30, 2020
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A data and software firm is to move 90 of its staff to the island under the Bermuda Government’s one-year “digital nomad” residential certificate scheme, it was revealed today.
Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said that Afiniti International Holdi...
DATE: Oct 29, 2020
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An elderly woman whose son died of diabetes said yesterday she was devastated by a nine month wait for a death certificate.
The woman, from Smith’s, who contacted The Royal Gazette after a report of a three-month delay, said: “To me, he hadn’t passed...
DATE: Oct 29, 2020
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