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Government paid out $150,000 as a “trade off” to the Bermuda National Trust, in order to break its 99-year lease for the West End’s historic Springfield House.
Although an estimated $750,000 had been paid by Government into refurbishing the rundown s...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A subsidy hike for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital came as welcome news yesterday for the cash-strapped Bermuda Hospitals Board.
But rising costs — which Finance Minister Bob Richards in his Budget statement warned could bankrupt Government — have ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Seniors’ advocates Age Concern issued “both a congratulatory and cautious response” to the latest Budget.
Executive director Claudette Fleming cheered the announcement of a $9 million boost to Government’s Financial Assistance programme which would h...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell flew a total of 17 trips since taking office, with the Government fact-finding mission to Singapore running up nearly $50,000 in costs.
The tab for January’s trip was given in response to parliamentary questions by Sh...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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Tourism
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Jonathan Bell
Former gang members are being given work to help out the community, thanks to an initiative by Habitat for Humanity Bermuda.
The group has quietly teamed up with the anti-gang programme Team Street Safe to fix up homes for needy families, free of cha...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A memorial service will be held this weekend for one-of-a-kind mechanic Edwin Baker, the Island’s sewing machine master, who has died at the age of 72.
A distributor and repairman of the once ubiquitous machines, Mr Baker — known as Ed or “Mr Ed” to ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
One of the Island’s sporting legends, cricketer Anthony Edwards, has died of the injuries he sustained in a road crash on February 6.
The former Somerset Cup Match and Bermuda fast bowler sustained serious head injuries when his motorcycle collided w...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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Supermarkets have not tampered with their prices since boosting their discounts, according to a monitoring exercise by the Department of Consumer Affairs.
The one-year concession started on December 4, 2013 for Lindo’s, MarketPlace and Supermart — al...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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Gang recruitment has been “undermined and is ripe for replacement”, according to the social charity Family Centre. But many residents continue to struggle to meet ends meet.
Executive director Martha Dismont also told the Hamilton Rotary Club that th...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A 65-year-old farmer and carriage driver who claimed he was driven to import cannabis out of financial desperation sobbed in court as he was jailed for six years for smuggling the drug in his farming supplies.
Howard Charles, of Southcourt Avenue, Pa...
DATE: Feb 18, 2014
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
