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The number of jobs that will be created by the financial technology industry was questioned by the Leader of the Opposition yesterday.
Jeanne Atherden, also the shadow finance minister, asked David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, how many ...
DATE: Aug 21, 2018
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Businessman Tarik Smith is the new deputy chairman of the One Bermuda Alliance.
Mr Smith, who runs the Bermuda Commercial Laundry and Ord Road Laundry, was elected to fill the vacancy left by Justin Mathias, who was promoted to party chairman last mo...
DATE: Aug 10, 2018
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News Staff
A new tax will leave Bermuda’s least well off facing a “potentially huge bill”, an Opposition senator said this morning.
The statement comes after the Payroll Tax Amendment Act was approved in the Upper Chamber on Wednesday.
Justin Mathias, chair o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
The number of births in Bermuda decreased in 2017 for the first time in three years.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, told the House of Assembly last Friday that there were 578 births in 2017, down from 591 in 2016. In 2015, the figure was...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Ten scholarships, valued at $10,000 each, have been handed out under the Public Service Bursary Scheme.
Government reform minister Lovitta Foggo said the move would help young Bermudians fill essential technical and professional posts within the publ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Department of Workforce Development scholarships were handed to 34 students.
Diallo Rabain told the House of Assembly 16 received up to $10,000 each for the National Technical Vocational Training scholarship and six were awarded the Technical Vocatio...
DATE: Jul 21, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
The One Bermuda Alliance repeated its call for the Parliamentary Registrar to release a report into the controversial release of voter information.
Opposition leader Jeanne Atherden said a number of “very troubling questions” remained unanswered on h...
DATE: Jul 21, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
A Litigation Guardian Council will be set up by the Bermuda Government.
The body will provide regulatory oversight of the recruitment, management and administration of litigation guardians on the island, according to social development minister Micha...
DATE: Jul 21, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
David Burt will give an overview of his first year in office in a national address tomorrow.
The Premier’s address, at 6.40pm, will be carried by CITV, One Communications channel 2 and Wow channel 102 as well as the website www.gov.bm/whats-on-citv a...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff
Training methods have been improved at the Royal Bermuda Regiment, national security minister Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly on Friday.
Mr Caines said the second recruit intake of 2018 has taken the total soldiers recruited this year to 65, ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
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Politics
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News Staff