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The Department of Health said it is moving swiftly to improve accounting, after the latest figures for Government health insurance drew fire from the Opposition.
“Data clean-up projects” are expected to be finished by the year's end, a spokeswoman to...
DATE: Jul 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Criminals who target visitors are also harming the Island’s tourism business — and it should reflect in their prison time.
This was the assertion of Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner, who took a sharp line in sentencing serial burglar Jamiko Bean.
M...
DATE: Jul 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
High administrative costs are diverting key revenue away from healthcare, and contributing to a deficit for Government’s health insurance, according to the Opposition.
Figures released in Friday’s House of Assembly for the year ending March 31, 2010 ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Increasing levels of violence are being reported in the Island’s cases of domestic abuse, according to the Centre Against Abuse.
Executive director Laurie Shiell said the domestic violence charity is also confronting a greater number of family situat...
DATE: Jul 24, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
MPs have approved the granting of a 50-year lease of land at Prospect in Devonshire for the new Bermuda Football Association headquarters.
Government Estates Minister Michael Scott told the House of Assembly that the 0.71 acres known as Gym Field, w...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A senior left broke in Bermuda after returning from Jamaica is entitled to money for a ticket back home, according to Families Minister Glenn Blakeney.
Dual national Jacqueline Perinchief, 66, told The Royal Gazette her return to the Island — where c...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian doctor, Victor Scott Jr, is in line to take charge at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, follows the suspension earlier this month of Chief of Staff Donald Thomas.
A spokeswoman said the BHB “are in the final stages of confirming Dr Victor Scot...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Deficiencies highlighted in the latest Public Accounts Committee report are years old and already being tackled by Government, Premier Paula Cox has said.
Ms Cox responded to concerns raised by the report, tabled Friday in the House of Assembly, on b...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
As the House of Assembly adjourned until November, United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan reflected on his career and declared: “I take responsibility for what was wrong.”
Listing the names of all the UBP premiers, Mr Swan said: “If they did anything w...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is aggressively competing against charities while healthcare costs rise, according to Opposition One Bermuda Alliance seniors spokesperson Louise Jackson.
Speaking in the House of Assembly Mrs Jackson said that the h...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
