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An engineer’s investigation into the structural failure of Heritage Wharf revealed extensive deterioration of the dock’s thruster walls, sustained within a few years of its official opening.
Certain aspects of the wall’s design also appear to differ ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Parents have not lost the right to stay informed about changes in their schools, according to education minister Wayne Scott.
However, Mr Scott stressed that the ultimate decision lies with the ministry itself, and that consultation was not the same ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Michael Dunkley has issued a call to women to take advantage of the move to open up the Bermuda Government’s boards and committees.
The Premier told the House of Assembly that members of the public seeking to join boards and committees were now free ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
Updates to Public Access to Information Act have gone before Parliament.
It includes a cutting down of the response time for public authorities to give information.
Michael Dunkley told MPs there had been 75 Pati requests so far: 15 have been directe...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
Parliament will soon debate a motion to look into “serious allegations of extortion and bribery made against sitting ministers of the Government”.
The motion was brought by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert in an earlier session of the House of Assembly.
R...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s success as a financial services jurisdiction has been boosted by the Solvency II equivalence for the local insurance market.
The Solvency II directive introduces “a modernised risk-based regulatory regime for insurance and reinsurance under...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
A prominent opponent of same-sex marriage has been invited to the Island by the group Concerned Citizens of Bermuda.
Ryan Anderson, who is a member of the conservative American think-tank the Heritage Foundation, lectures on the constitutional implic...
DATE: Nov 25, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
The practice of restraining or drugging people with dementia is a violation of their human rights that is “absolutely, completely unacceptable”, an international advocate for those with Alzheimer’s has said.
Johan Vos, the deputy executive director o...
DATE: Nov 25, 2015
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A few students at the Bermuda High School suffered minor injuries earlier today when part of the ceiling collapsed in a classroom, according to Linda Parker, the head of school.
The fall occurred during a Year 8 English class, Ms Parker said.
“As the...
DATE: Nov 25, 2015
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Bermuda is bidding to host the annual Global Entrepreneurship Congress in 2018, the Senate heard this morning.
The GEC has been hosted by Kansas City, Dubai, Shanghai, Liverpool, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Milan since its creation in 2009.
“Future co...
DATE: Nov 25, 2015
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