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Bermuda has paid out its creditors more than $1 million in penalties over two years of late submissions for the Government’s financials.
The penalties apply to private placement notes rather than to public bonds, according to details from Bob Richard...
DATE: Feb 07, 2017
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An online campaign is being backed by David Burt, the Leader of the Opposition, in aid of the family of his nephew Tyrone Tomlinson, who was shot dead in Toronto on Sunday night.
According to the Toronto Police Service, Mr Tomlinson, 21, who lived in...
DATE: Feb 07, 2017
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Ian Mackie, a popular former diver who worked as caretaker on the property of Michael Douglas, has been named by police as the 48-year-old man found in an unresponsive state on Sunday at the Warwick home.
The son of veteran diver Doug Mackie, he was ...
DATE: Feb 07, 2017
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Negotiations entailed in the airport redevelopment ran up a tab of $4.1 million to the Government’s law firm, Bennett Jones.
But Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, said the bill would have been higher if a request for proposal had been issued for...
DATE: Feb 04, 2017
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Chartered accountant Craig Mayor, a persistent critic of the airport redevelopment project, returned to the Public Accounts Committee yesterday, saying the Bermuda Government’s “methodology is nonsense, and the results are nonsense”.
Meanwhile, the c...
DATE: Feb 03, 2017
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Brian Peckett, the island’s first full-time anaesthetist and fondly known as Dr P, has died at the age of 90.
Dr Peckett’s arrival in Bermuda marked a leap forward for local medicine, where doctors had previously relied on colleagues to administer an...
DATE: Feb 03, 2017
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A long break from Parliament ends today for MPs as the House of Assembly reconvenes to debate legislation ranging from business to immigration and casino gaming.
The introduction of the Land Title Registry, several years in the making, will be brough...
DATE: Feb 03, 2017
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By certain measures, Bermuda’s economy is on the road to recovery — but for some sections of society the patient remains as sick as ever.
The Royal Gazette visited the island’s newest feeding programme to speak with guests, and asked charity workers ...
DATE: Feb 03, 2017
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More than 2,500 people were signed up on Financial Assistance as of December last year, according to social development minister Sylvan Richards.
In total, 2,521 people were signed up, of whom 2,171 were black and 324 were white, Mr Richards told the...
DATE: Feb 03, 2017
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There were 148 security cameras island-wide under the BAS-Serco contract, at a cost of $2.6 million, according to Michael Dunkley, speaking for the Ministry of National Security.
The details were given in response to parliamentary questions from? Wal...
DATE: Feb 03, 2017
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