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The ailing swing bridge for St George’s, closed for a year in April of last year as a Government cost-saving measure, remains in poor condition — and could stay closed.
As of October, a Public Works engineer conceded that the Ministry’s structures te...
DATE: Feb 17, 2015
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Shadow Minister for Transport Lawrence Scott had high praise for this week’s road safety summit and said he would gladly join a task force to be created in the coming weeks to address the Island’s dangerous roads.
Mr Scott said he found the calling o...
DATE: Feb 14, 2015
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Bermuda has had no confirmed cases of measles, the chief medical officer Cheryl Peek-Ball said yesterday after some paediatricians reported being inundated with calls from concerned parents.
The definitive results of a virus test on a possible local ...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Premier Michael Dunkley has laid out details of his trip to Washington DC, where 12 meetings were conducted on Capitol Hill.
Government is closely watching United States tax policy, which has implications for Bermuda’s economy, and Mr Dunkley said he...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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More than 100 security cameras were installed around the Island by the beginning of December under a contract with the firm BAS-Serco, MPs heard in the House of Assembly.
The contract calls for 149 cameras — 19 of which have licence plate-reading cap...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Bermuda’s modernisation of its air traffic management will allow the Island to become a certified air navigation service provider, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell told Members of Parliament yesterday upon resumption at the House of Assembly. “Sign...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Staff are entitled to get paid ahead of creditors when a company is wound up, according to law. But the collapse of the White’s supermarket chain left nothing to pay them.
Yesterday Shadow Labour Minister Derrick Burgess — who was president of the Be...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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A task force to remedy Bermuda’s “deplorable” road safety record will be put together this month, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell said after yesterday’s road safety summit.
“Within the next two weeks, I will be calling and visiting people to be pa...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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Sobriety tests at the scenes of accidents will be introduced in the upcoming session of Parliament, while speed camera legislation is likely to be tabled in the subsequent session, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell told yesterday’s road safety summi...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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A midday blaze gutted part of a Sandys nursery yesterday, but a woman and four small children managed to get out unscathed.
According to a Police spokesman, smoke and fire were seen “billowing from the residence” when they arrived at about 12.30pm.
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DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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