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The Progressive Labour Party is strongly positioned to take back Government, according to MP Rolfe Commissiong.
But he called the PLP’s December 17 loss to the One Bermuda Alliance “heartbreaking”.
“After getting to the point of grabbing the holy gra...
DATE: Mar 18, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Ambitious young footballer Kiuno Cann is aiming for the top of his league — but school comes first for this Pembroke teenager.
“I do believe that education is the most important thing — but my long term goal is professional football,” Kiuno told The ...
DATE: Mar 16, 2013
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Both sides of Parliament condemned inflammatory speech after Pembroke South East MP Rolfe Commissiong denounced an anonymous letter placed prominently in The Royal Gazette.
The exchange saw Government, backed by Attorney General Mark Pettingill, agre...
DATE: Mar 16, 2013
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Income and education are the top determinants in both the health and health spending of Bermuda’s residents.
The Health Disparities Report 2013, released yesterday by the Bermuda Health Council, shows the extent to which social and economic forces af...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
A bill raising Government’s health insurance premiums has been tabled in the House of Assembly.
The Health Insurance (Standard Hospital Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2013 will set a new monthly premium of $325.84.
The weekly rate is to be $75.19. In...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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Government is to discuss the fate of the Uighurs with US and UK authorities, according to their lawyer.
The news comes as a Chinese Muslim jailed at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba with the four men, disappeared from the island of Palau in the Pacific and re-em...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Distinguished pilot warden and harbourmaster Edward Welch was yesterday laid to rest at sea.
Deputy pilot Warden Mario Thompson recalled him as a lifelong native of St George’s and a formal and taciturn man who mentored countless young men in the tra...
DATE: Mar 13, 2013
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The Bermuda Regiment’s top officer has discretion over the names placed on a memorial to fallen soldiers at Warwick Camp.
So explained Lieutenant Colonel Brian Gonsalves after questions were raised over a planned tribute to those who died while in se...
DATE: Mar 12, 2013
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Shadow Community Minister Michael Weeks has called for a change in House of Assembly procedure to allow fair say.
The Progressive Labour Party MP is smarting from the “debacle” that denied him a chance to debate department heads with Community and Cu...
DATE: Mar 12, 2013
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Apartments at Warwick’s Grand Atlantic complex weren’t sold because of One Bermuda Alliance scaremongering, former Public Works Minister Michael Weeks said.
Mr Weeks called on the OBA Government to apologise, saying they’d “hoodwinked and bamboozled ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2013
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