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A rethink of Bermuda’s pandemic precautions is to be announced in the House of Assembly early next month, the Premier revealed yesterday.
David Burt said in an interview with TNN that the changes, to be announced on February 4, would come into force...
DATE: Jan 22, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An “extremely rare” silver hunger strike medal awarded to an activist with Bermuda links will go under the hammer at a UK auction house this month.
Stroud Auction Rooms contacted The Royal Gazette about the 1912 medal awarded to Frances Outerbrid...
DATE: Jan 04, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Applications are open online for members of the public to serve on government boards and committees, the Cabinet Office said.
Expressions of interest are available on the Government’s website here.
A spokeswoman said that the boards and committees we...
DATE: Dec 20, 2021
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The replacement of paper with online transactions at the Department of Immigration was slowed by the impact of Covid-19 as well as by old equipment, the labour minister said Friday.
But Jason Hayward told the House of Assembly that the department had...
DATE: Dec 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former director of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs will head a new committee set up to preserve the histories of school scheduled for closure, the education minister has announced.
Diallo Rabain said Heather Whalen would spearhead ...
DATE: Dec 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than $6 million was paid in consultancy fees to four professional services firms over 19 months, MPs were told yesterday.
But Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said more than 60 per cent of the cash went to EY under an order from the court...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new fleet of electric buses will cost less than half the price of older diesel vehicles, the transport minister told the House of Assembly yesterday morning.
Lawrence Scott said 30 buses, built by the Golden Dragon Bus Company in China at a cost of...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The House of Assembly was updated yesterday morning on key meetings to keep the island off the European Union’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions.
Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, briefed MPs on meetings held in London and Brussels.
Mr...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Secrecy still surrounds the decision-making that led to a payout of almost a quarter of a million dollars from the public purse to 28 people who protested outside Parliament on December 2, 2016, and their lawyers.
Five years on from the infamous clas...
DATE: Dec 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A new government administration keen to prove its ability to jump-start an economy left moribund after the recession of 2008 came to the public with a major infrastructure proposal in 2014.
Communications staff for Bob Richards, the finance minister,...
DATE: Dec 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell