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Patient satisfaction is rising consistently, announced the Bermuda Hospitals Board, with the release of its latest annual survey. Approval of Emergency Room services rose from 66.4 percent in 2009 to last year’s 93.2 percent. Inpatient units got 92.7...

New Wedco chairman Ray Charlton said he plans to resume talks with the affordable housing group Habitat for Humanity Bermuda. Proposals for the group to help in repairing old West End homes had faltered as of last year. The One Bermuda Alliance candi...

David Thompson is to serve as temporary chief financial officer for Bermuda Hospitals Board. Mr Thompson comes from PricewaterhouseCoopers to fill the post after Delia Basden was placed on administrative leave. Ms Basden was suspended on full pay as ...

Eight positions will be made redundant by Bermuda Hospitals Board before the end of this month. The move brings the total number of jobs axed by BHB to nine for the present fiscal year. Since some staff are expected to be redeployed, the exact number...

Former Premier Alex Scott cheered Government’s announcement of another step toward delivering Public Access to Information in Bermuda. Nearly ten years on from his initiation of PATI under the Progressive Labour Party, Mr Scott said he was “encourage...

An Olympic quiz crossing local sports, sports news and last year’s London Games is coming to put Bermuda to the test. Hint: Some of the answers are to be found in coming sports pages of The Royal Gazette. Following the success of last year’s Olympic...

An expanded work experience programme and a hall of achievement highlighting alumni success stories are among the proposals for the coming year. And Mr Francis yesterday vowed that 85 percent of the class of 2014 would graduate with honours as a resu...

MPs last night passed a resolution to give Cabinet Ministers a ten percent pay cut, effective April 1. “It’s more symbolic than substantive,” conceded Premier Craig Cannonier, noting that the overall saving was relatively small. “But in our present e...

A squabble over parliamentary procedure saw the same half-hour of Budget presentation read out twice in the House of Assembly. Speaker of the House Randy Horton was thwarted in his attempt to present briefs on non-Ministry Departments. Announcing tha...

At $161,000, it’s the biggest jackpot reaped from a local betting shop in the Island’s history. For Progressive Labour Party chairman Maynard Dill, yesterday’s cheque from Sea Horses was certainly also a fine return on a $2.50 wager. Lucky winner Mr ...