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The America’s Cup village site will be handed over to the AC Event Authority five months ahead of schedule, MPs heard this morning.
The infill in Dockyard’s South Basin has taken in 310,000 cubic yards of material in the last few months, Grant Gibbon...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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The Singapore model for casino gaming adopted by the Bermuda Government in the 2014 Act will be amended to suit the island, the House of Assembly heard this morning.
The updates came from Shawn Crockwell, the Minister of Tourism Development and Trans...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
A crowd of hundreds demonstrating against One Bermuda Alliance immigration initiatives came out to pack Parliament Street outside the Government Administration Building.
However, Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, insisted that yesterday’s p...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
The hoped-for sale of the defunct Grand Atlantic housing development in Warwick has not materialised, according to Craig Cannonier, the Minister of Public Works.
A memorandum of understanding between Bermudiana Beach Resorts and the Bermuda Housing C...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Government’s move to hike up payroll tax has been branded “baffling” by the Bermuda Public Services Union, as the tax regime is already tilted against lower income workers.
Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, conceded the imbalance dur...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Fuel prices have been raised in the Budget for the second year, meaning that come April the price of gasoline will have been hiked 13 cents per litre in just over a year.
The duty on fuel, which went up by five cents in last year’s Budget, acquired a...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Protesters who disrupted a meeting on new immigration policies for long-term residents have spoken to The Royal Gazette about the frustrations that drove them to vent their anger in public.
Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, criticised the ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island is likely to face a hike in taxes when Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, presents the 2016/17 Budget this morning in the House of Assembly.
That assessment has come from observers ranging from Kendaree Burgess, the executive director ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sources within the One Bermuda Alliance fear that the party is on the brink of “political suicide” over its apparent disconnect with ordinary Bermudians.
Longstanding frustrations after the party’s sizeable defeat in the Devonshire North Central by-e...
DATE: Feb 17, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
There was no flak incurred within the One Bermuda Alliance for Sylvan Richards’s apparent split from party ranks on the issue of same-sex marriage, according to the Junior Minister of Home Affairs.
On the day after the OBA announced plans to bring c...
DATE: Feb 13, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell