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The Planning Department was allotted a budget of $3.9 million, the same as last year, and is expected to bring in more than $1 million in revenue, the Senate heard during the Budget debate.
Government Senator David Burt noted that the Department has ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2012
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The Ministry of Justice’s $58.5 million budget was approved in the Senate yesterday without debate.
While the budget sparked a long debate in the House of Assembly, the Ministry’s budget was allotted only a half-hour for debate in the Senate. As a re...
DATE: Mar 27, 2012
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The Devonshire Parish Council are hoping to hear from their constituents at a meeting this evening.
The 2012 Meet Your Council Night, taking place at Christ Church Devonshire Hall starting at 6.30pm, will give Devonshire residents the opportunity to ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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The sacrifices made by those who resisted the slave trade have been remembered in a ceremony at Cobbs Hill Methodist Church.
Yesterday’s service, held to mark the United Nation’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Tran...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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Salvation Army volunteer, honours student and Carifta Games hopeful. Akeila Richardson’s teachers at CedarBridge Academy already knew she was a pretty outstanding teen and on Saturday night it was made official.
Richardson made history when she was n...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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New legislation regarding Health Insurance could potentially result in breaches of doctor-patient confidentiality, according to some GPs.
The GPs expressed concern that because of broad wording, the legislation could give the Bermuda Health Council a...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Anti-racism organisation CURB will host a two-day conference this week on racial injustices and the impact of racism, past and present.
The Racial Justice Conference, which takes place on Friday and Saturday, will feature speakers such civil rights l...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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Senate approved legislation to increase the debt ceiling to $1.45 billion, despite the objections of members of the Opposition.
Junior Finance Minister Senator David Burt told the Upper Chamber that Government was committed to prudent fiscal planning...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Belco has denied making an error in advertising proposed rate changes, but admitted making a mistake in a tariff filing for the rate change and in a subsequent press release.
And a company spokeswoman said the error actually made the proposed price c...
DATE: Mar 24, 2012
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A former Acting Director for the Telecommunications Department has filed a writ claiming he was wrongfully dismissed from the post.
Harim Edwards, in a writ filed by James and Associates on his behalf on March 7, also claims his pension payments have...
DATE: Mar 23, 2012
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