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The Auditor-General issued a qualified audit opinion to the Government for 2017-18 after she ruled there was insufficient evidence for $10.3 million of capital development expenditure.
Heather Thomas’s decision was revealed as Curtis Dickinson, the f...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three people have been suspended from their jobs while allegations of abuse by Child and Family Services staff are investigated, the Premier said yesterday.
Mr Burt told the House of Assembly that the investigations were at “various stages” and the r...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A clinic run by Ewart Brown, a former premier, is to restart hi-tech CT scans almost a year after the plug was pulled on the computerised imaging service.
The Brown-Darrell Clinic in Smith’s will bring back the scanning service on Monday.
Dr Brown si...
DATE: Dec 14, 2018
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Amendments to update the Mental Health Act are to be tabled in the House of Assembly today.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, will deliver a statement explaining the amendments, which were designed to tighten the legal definition of mental illness....
DATE: Dec 14, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, updated the House of Assembly this morning on the island’s disaster risk reduction and mitigation work.
These included dealing with a simulated fuel spill at the airport while planes were full of passe...
DATE: Dec 14, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A condolence book will be opened at the Hamilton Police Station tomorrow for tributes to be paid to the late former police commissioner Frederick “Penny” Bean.
Mr Bean’s passing marks “a monumental loss for the Bermuda Police Service and the local co...
DATE: Dec 13, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A controversial group linked to the Church of Scientology is to run a seminar in a leading hotel today, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The conference was organised by Dee Pearson, a Bermudian, with her husband, Don.
A schedule for the seminar sent out...
DATE: Dec 12, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s chief medical officer is to be released from routine administrative tasks under new legislation approved Friday by MPs.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said requirements for the job had included “wholly inappropriate” tasks.
These inclu...
DATE: Dec 11, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A surge in work-permit approvals emerged in figures provided in the House of Assembly for September through November.
Work-permits applications suffered a backlog earlier this year, and the minister in charge switched on November 1 in a Cabinet reshu...
DATE: Dec 11, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Department of Public Transportation staff have come together to support a former colleague with a donation to help with medical expenses.
Today they handed a cheque for $2,260 to the family of Anthony Lodge, a former dispatcher and inspector with the...
DATE: Dec 11, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell