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Bermuda’s legislature has a revamped website which will help the public to ask MPs questions.
Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker of the House, told MPs about the upgrade on Friday.
The site will include a “virtual tour” through the House and the hom...
DATE: Aug 14, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Monetary Authority’s regulations have been updated to keep in line with the island’s budding fintech industry.
The amendments were brought to the House of Assembly on Friday by Wayne Furbert, the Junior Minister of Finance.
The authority’...
DATE: Aug 14, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Fraudsters posing as communications representatives under the out-of-date company names Logic and Northrock have attempted to gain private customer information, according to One Communications.
In a statement, the company asked for the public to “exe...
DATE: Aug 14, 2018
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
MPs were slapped down for behaving like a “classroom of schoolchildren” by the Speaker of the House of Assembly yesterday.
Dennis Lister Jr issued a stern warning after images of MPs asleep in the chamber circulated on social media.
Mr Lister had “no...
DATE: Aug 11, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Employment has risen, government revenues are up, spending is down and the deficit has been cut by 24 per cent, the Premier said yesterday.
David Burt, also the finance minister, told the House of Assembly that “the facts totally disprove this tired ...
DATE: Aug 11, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The “devastated” family of murder victim Taylor Grier, whose funeral will be held today, have appealed for public assistance to help cover the cost of bringing loved ones to join the celebration of his life.
Mr Grier’s father, John Grier, who lives i...
DATE: Aug 10, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudian amateur historian Diana Hyde has died at the age of 90.
Ms Hyde, the daughter of Sir Allan Chalmers Smith, a former attorney-general, and mother of environmentalist Anne Hyde, was born in Bermuda but spent much of her adult life in Gibson I...
DATE: Aug 10, 2018
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Other
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Jonathan Bell
A teenager caught on camera throwing bags of trash into the ocean at a weekend raft-up has apologised and promised to clean the area with a group of friends.
Jonathan Hodgkins, 19, was filmed throwing two bags into Mangrove Bay last Sunday.
He admitt...
DATE: Aug 10, 2018
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Other
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Jonathan Bell
Duty relief for the conversion of the Grand Atlantic housing complex in Warwick into a hotel is to be debated today in the House of Assembly.
The legislation, tabled by public works minister Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch this morning, seeks to exemp...
DATE: Aug 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudian martial arts students kicked off the summer by representing the island at a karate gala in Canada.
Now teacher Bobby Smith, who was invited to be a guest instructor at the 29th Miyagi Chojun Festival in Burlington, Ontario, has found his sk...
DATE: Aug 09, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell