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The Attorney-General and the Commissioner of Police have been accused of attempting to tarnish the reputation of former premier Ewart Brown before a global audience.
Correspondence from Dr Brown’s lawyer, Jerome Lynch QC, was sent today to both Trevo...
DATE: Mar 09, 2017
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The Department of Financial Assistance will have its budget trimmed by just over $1 million in the coming fiscal year, to $53.555 million for 2017-18.
Nandi Outerbridge, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, also updated MPs yesterday on the ...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017
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Child and Family Services has been budgeted $15.634 million for 2017-18, down 2 per cent on the previous fiscal year, according to Nandi Outerbridge, the Minister of Social Development and Sport.
Mrs Outerbridge began her overview of the department w...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017
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It’s time to enter floats for the Bermuda Day Parade, and the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs has issued a reminder that any kind of material can be used to build one.
Artists and novices alike were invited to use sculptures, murals, rec...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017
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The Government has been called upon by Opposition MP Zane DeSilva to “prove me wrong” that the hotel development for St George’s would not be first in line for construction.
Mr DeSilva said he understood that “some residences will be built before the...
DATE: Mar 07, 2017
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The media’s job in strengthening the role of the Public Accounts Committee was among the agenda items for an overseas forum attended by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert, chairman of Bermuda’s PAC.
The two-day conference’s discussion points were put forwar...
DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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With the Bermuda Government spending under extra scrutiny during the Reply to the Budget debate, it was perhaps inevitable that the price tag for Sylvan Richards’ trip to the Olympics would come up on Friday night in the House of Assembly.
The former...
DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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Freddie Evans, formerly the acting Commissioner of Education, has been appointed to the post of commissioner to lead the island’s public school system.
The announcement came this afternoon from the Board of Education.
It ends a long stint without a p...
DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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The arrival of a healthy cahow chick, the latest addition to Bermuda’s now thriving of the endangered national bird, was watched around the world courtesy of the CahowCam, which broadcast its hatching.
The chick, which emerged on 9.45pm on Thursday n...
DATE: Mar 05, 2017
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Expect a lengthy debate today in the House of Assembly as the Opposition delivers its response to the 2017-18 Budget delivered last week by Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance.
Mr Richards will first move the Budget book with its accompanying state...
DATE: Mar 03, 2017
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