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The majority of the private sector is unlikely to take advantage of a plan to let companies and their employees suspend pension contributions for a year, according to the Bermuda Employers’ Council.
Council president Keith Jensen said he did not beli...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The shipping industry and consumers alike will be hit hard by Government's decision to charge 25 percent duty on all goods imported for personal use, according to three of the Island's couriers.
They criticised Premier Paula Cox's announcement in her...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Prosecutors have decided not to charge two men accused of abusing and exploiting a vulnerable old woman in her own home.
Police spent years investigating allegations against the pair but didn’t share their findings with the Department of Public Prose...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Nurses at King Edward VII Memorial are offering free health screenings tomorrow in honour of Healthy Heart Month.
The screenings will be in the hospital lobby between 11am and 2pm and will include tests for blood pressure, blood sugar, weight circumf...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Police arrested four people and seized “significant quantities” of illegal drugs during two raids.
Officers from the Public Protection Department of the Bermuda Police Service executed a search warrant at a Nantucket Lane, Smith’s property, on Thursd...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Gale force winds forced the cancellation of flights and ferries yesterday but the weather is expected to improve today.
JetBlue cancelled its incoming and outgoing New York flights, with an airline spokeswoman telling The Royal Gazette it was due to ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda cannot sustain the current level of debt it is accumulating, according to opposition MP Kim Swan.
Mr Swan said yesterday that financial statements on the Consolidated Fund issued by the Auditor General on Friday made for worrying reading.
The...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Progressive Labour Party backbencher Terry Lister told MPs he didn’t support the parliamentary committee system because the Opposition used it to take “cheap shots” at Government.
Mr Lister told the House of Assembly that when the joint select commit...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Yoko Ono has agreed to appear on a Bermuda tribute CD to John Lennon, according to the man behind the project.
Tony Brannon told The Royal Gazette yesterday that Lennon’s widow was providing vocals of her song ‘Walking on Thin Ice’ which would be rem...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
It had all the makings of a fantastic beach party: girls in bikinis, free-flowing booze, a volleyball net and a gigantic water slide.
But the one thing yesterday’s Party on the Rock at Horseshoe Bay couldn’t quite deliver was sunshine.
Instead, the ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
