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More than 25 groups yesterday backed the official commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott that laid the ground for modern Bermuda.
Lisa Reed, executive officer of the Human Rights Commission, delivered a proclamation marking the ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
People crippled by debt should not be sent to jail, according to Opposition MP Wayne Furbert.
He has tabled a bill in the House of Assembly to outlaw a practice branded “barbaric” by campaigners.
“What we’re saying is that the courts should not have ...
DATE: Jun 28, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Pensions are set to be frozen at current levels for Government employees and MPs, Minister of Finance Bob Richards announced.
Mr Richards told the House of Assembly that pensions were massively underfunded and that he would introduce legislation aime...
DATE: Jun 28, 2014
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Politics
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Struggling businesses in Hamilton and St George’s could be forced to shut up shop if smaller cruise ships are not signed up for the two harbours, tourism chief Bill Hanbury warned yesterday.
Mr Hanbury said: “There will be another round of businesses...
DATE: Jun 27, 2014
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The world wide web is the key to boosting Bermuda’s flagging tourist industry.
Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) chief Bill Hanbury said the new body had focused 82 percent of its advertising online in the second quarter of the year, compared to just 5...
DATE: Jun 27, 2014
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The team behind a major survey of plastic pollution in the waters around Bermuda will tonight talk about their findings.
Plastic Tides — which carried out an 11-day trip around Bermuda on paddleboards — looked at plastic pollution in the ocean.
Now t...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A special conference is to be held next month to mark the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Bermuda.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley will be the keynote speaker at the event, which will also examine the development of human rights since the ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A wall of silence last night surrounded a probe into a $300,000 donation to an One Bermuda Alliance-linked political fund.
Party chairman Thad Hollis — who is heading the inquiry into the donation by US tycoon Nathan Landow and associates made in the...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
An olive branch has been offered to trade unions by Premier Michael Dunkley.
And he said that he wanted to foster good industrial relations with the union movement.
Mr Dunkley was speaking after he met representatives of the Bermuda Trades Union Cong...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s waters are polluted with high levels of plastic waste, according to an international team of conservationists.
The Plastic Tides team are spending nearly a fortnight on the Island, using paddleboards to sample the seas for micro-plastics — ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
