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Tributes have been paid in Parliament to Jasmine “Jasz” Saltus, a respected officer within the Transport Control Department who died on Thursday at the age of 41.
A former detective from the Bermuda Police Service, where he gained a baton of honour a...
DATE: Mar 05, 2016
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Raymond Augustus, who helped to run the family business Augustus Funeral Home, has died at the age of 57.
Mr Augustus was a funeral director along with his brothers Calvin, David, Derrick and Gary at their establishment on the corner of Brunswick and...
DATE: Mar 04, 2016
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Jamaica’s hard-fought elections were keenly followed from Bermuda, according to Orville Campbell, the head of the local Jamaican Association.
Enthusiasm for the “fierce battle” heightened in the week leading up to February 25, when the Jamaica Labour...
DATE: Mar 04, 2016
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Close to 40,000 sick days in the Civil Service equates to a Bermuda Government expense of more than $10 million for the 2015/16 fiscal year, according to Michael Dunkley.
The Premier gave the figures during the House of Assembly’s Budget debate for t...
DATE: Mar 03, 2016
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Transport minister Shawn Crockwell has provided details about a $13 million Budget allocation for the Island’s airport redevelopment project
Meanwhile David Burt, the Shadow Minister of Finance, pointed out that millions had been budgeted for a proje...
DATE: Mar 03, 2016
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Close to half a million dollars has been allocated in the Budget for a Commission of Inquiry to examine how government finances were handled under the former Progressive Labour Party administration.
Meanwhile, Marc Bean has vowed to put in place a co...
DATE: Mar 03, 2016
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The dispute over the Bermuda Government’s immigration policies continued as MPs debated the budget for the 2016 census in yesterday’s House of Assembly.
A sum of $1.7 million has been allocated for the census, which Michael Dunkley, the Premier, call...
DATE: Mar 03, 2016
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More resources to make Bermuda’s roads safer would be “cost prohibitive” to implement, transport minister Shawn Crockwell told MPs.
Meanwhile, the possibility of visitors being able to rent cars that would be safe to use on local roads remains under ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2016
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Brothers of Bermuda, a men’s group seeking to grow into a worldwide initiative, was launched this afternoon with a salute to the head boys and deputy head boys at the island’s senior schools.
The group, aimed at linking together men to volunteer, men...
DATE: Mar 03, 2016
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A new men’s group will be launched tomorrow, with the aim of bringing men together from all walks of life to support one another.
Brothers of Bermuda will bring men together through teamwork on “spiritual, financial, legal, medical, occupational, edu...
DATE: Mar 02, 2016
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