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A construction firm appealed to the Government to settle its unpaid bill topping $1 million for the Sandys 360 sports complex at the West End, an Opposition backbencher has revealed.
Calling the failed gym a “black hole”, Trevor Moniz, a former publi...
DATE: Jul 29, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Eight years of investigations into Ewart Brown have left the former premier unable to clear his name, MPs heard on Friday.
Michael Scott, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher, castigated the police investigation into Dr Brown, who has never been ch...
DATE: Jul 29, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s war veterans and their widows were given a pensions boost during Friday’s sitting of the House of Assembly.
The Pensions (War Service) Order 2019 raised the monthly payment due to veterans from $800 to $1,000.
The debate, opened by Wayne Ca...
DATE: Jul 28, 2019
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
A potential new executive director for the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission has been identified, with the gambling watchdog in the “early stages of discussion as to their suitability for the role”.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said in t...
DATE: Jul 15, 2019
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Questions ranging from the emigration of Bermudians to the island’s surging rat population were fielded by David Burt during Premier’s Question Time on Friday.
Mr Burt took opening queries from Craig Cannonier, the Leader of the Opposition, on the “p...
DATE: Jul 15, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A stalled hotel development at the West End needs a major rethink, the Minister of Finance warned yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson told the House of Assembly that the Caroline Bay project, at Morgan’s Point in Southampton, had to be “recast and devised wi...
DATE: Jul 13, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An update on a stalled hotel development in Southampton will be made in the House of Assembly today.
Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, will make a statment to MPs about the troubled Caroline Bay development at Morgan’s Point.
Mr Dickinson warne...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A six-man Wage Commission will include two ex officio members from the ministries responsible for labour and finance.
The news came as legislation to set up the commission was tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly.
Its main functions under the Em...
DATE: Jul 09, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police were told to pepper-spray protesters at a December 2, 2016 airport demonstration outside the House of Assembly, a special report into the disturbance revealed yesterday.
A parliamentary joint select committee found that officers were apparent...
DATE: Jul 06, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Legislation for the creation of an independent wage commission is to be tabled this morning in the House of Assembly.
The proposed law will be based on the recommendations of a joint select committee that recommended the establishment of a minimum an...
DATE: Jul 05, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell