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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
Education reform was already “dead on arrival” by the time a bipartisan parliamentary committee began reviewing progress, Opposition MP Grant Gibbons claimed yesterday.
The Shadow Education Minister told the House of Assembly that the joint select co...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell claimed last night that his counterpart in Government put a “gloss” and a “spin” this week on the 2011 visitor arrival figures.
Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert reported on Monday that Bermuda recorded the second...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Patient satisfaction with acute care services at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital rose last year, according to figures released yesterday.
A survey carried out on behalf of Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) found that levels of satisfaction increased in...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ombudsman Arlene Brock has insisted she was entirely within her rights to launch an inquiry into special development orders (SDOs), despite Environment Minister Marc Bean describing her decision to do so as “peculiar”.
And she told The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Opposition MP Louise Jackson has called on Bermuda Hospitals Board to make public a report by US experts on the state of the Continuing Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
She said yesterday she welcomed the news that experts from Massach...
DATE: Feb 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A review of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s $13,800-a-month Continuing Care Unit has been done by experts from Boston.
But Bermuda Hospitals Board say the completed report from clinical partners at Massachusetts General Hospital is not for public...
DATE: Feb 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
