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Bermuda Industrial Union members approved a wage increase offered by the Government yesterday.
Hundreds of unionised staff voted on a new collective bargaining agreement settled by their negotiating team.
Chris Furbert, the president of the BIU, said...
DATE: Jun 13, 2019
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Budget
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Jonathan Bell
A tenpin bowling pioneer who headed the first office of Parliamentary Registrar after it separated from the Registrar General has died, aged 83.
Lionel Dowling traced his bowling career back to 1962 and led the sport in Bermuda as an administrator fo...
DATE: Jun 13, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
The wife of a former Governor of Bermuda has been praised for her support for charity on the island.
Jennifer Masefield, who died in April, aged 79, the wife of former governor Thorold Masefield, was given a service of remembrance last week at St Sav...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Tributes have been paid to a beloved receptionist at the Cabinet Office, who has died, aged 69.
David Burt said in the House of Assembly on Friday that Beunice Crockwell’s spirit would “brighten even that place”.
The Premier told MPs: “She was kind t...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Costumes and colour took over the streets of Hamilton yesterday for the You Go Girl! relay race for charity.
It was Bermuda’s eighth year of the event, with proceeds going to benefit the Women’s Resource Centre.
Runners and walkers of all ages donned...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Royal Bermuda Regiment was front and centre for the traditional celebration of the Queen’s Birthday on Saturday.
RBR soldiers and the RBR’s Band & Corps of Drums led the parade from Cabinet Office in Hamilton to Front Street watched by hundreds o...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Dockyard now boasts 90 per cent occupancy of its buildings, and saw a “record” 20 per cent surge in business sales this April over the previous month.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly on Friday ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Six high-flying undergraduates will intern at the Cabinet Office this summer under a programme offered by the Department of Workforce Development.
The scheme, announced in the 2018 Throne Speech, coincides with two other programmes to develop the tal...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda's “historic wrongs” that deprived citizens of property are to be investigated by a commission of inquiry, David Burt announced yesterday.
The Premier told the House of Assembly that some victims might have died, along with “those who committe...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A single mother with a part-time job and debt said yesterday she feared arrest for a missed hearing in “humiliating” debt court over a debt of just $1,300.
Sheelagh Cooper, chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity in Bermuda, said that the woman’s plight s...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell