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Bermuda continues to spend more than it earns, the Ministry of Finance reported today.
Government took in $443.5 million and spent $459.4 million during the first half of the fiscal year.
Spending was said to be $28.5 million, or 5.8 per cent lower t...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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A robbery by two men at the Sandys Laundromat resulted in the pair escaping with an unknown quantity of cash, police have reported.
The robbery, shortly before 3pm, occurred at the plaza beside the MarketPlace, with the two entering the business and ...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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Graffiti has been sprayed across the doorway of the Somers Isles Lodge in Sandys, just before the facility is to be used by area voters in tomorrow’s by-election.
The quasi-religious motto has been removed, according to Progressive Labour Party candi...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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A moderate drop in the number of Government employees was reported to the House of Assembly by Premier Michael Dunkley, with a concurrent drop in wages and overtime expenditure.
Responding to Parliamentary questions from the Progressive Labour Party’...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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The One Bermuda Alliance went public with its protest against an alleged verbal attack that Marc Bean made against Toni Daniels, with a premeditated walkout as soon as the Opposition Leader began the Reply to the Throne Speech at the reconvening of P...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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“Radical education reform” would be a swift priority of a Progressive Labour Party Government, Opposition Leader Marc Bean declared in the Reply to the Throne Speech.
Economic diversification, plus an opening of Bermuda’s health insurance market to c...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
Stanley Paris, the determined sailor hoping to become the oldest person to circumnavigate the globe in 150 years, is passing by Bermuda today on his vessel the Kiwi Spirit.
Dr Paris, 77, called off his last attempt in January after he suffered severa...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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The Progressive Labour Party’s Jamahl Simmons said he had not planned to run for Parliament in Sandys South, but constituents called on him to put his name forward.
Unemployment, Mr Simmons said, is “the biggest issue, bar none” — along with a growin...
DATE: Nov 14, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Courting air arrivals is the top priority for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, with air visitor numbers down almost four percent for the year to date.
Marketing the Bermuda experience by encouraging online pictures and videos is part of the organisatio...
DATE: Nov 14, 2014
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Fixing up White Hill Field is among the initiatives proposed by prospective Sandys South MP Georgia Marshall, who said she’d been well received by residents during her canvassing.
The One Bermuda Alliance hopeful is running against the Progressive La...
DATE: Nov 14, 2014
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Jonathan Bell