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The temporary payroll tax relief granted to retailers on Friday may be given to other businesses too.
Premier Paula Cox revealed last night she had ordered a review of business classifications to determine if certain “customer-orientated” firms shoul...
DATE: Oct 03, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ten-year work permits will start to be issued by the Department of Immigration this month, according to Business Bermuda chief executive officer Cheryl Packwood.
She said Economy Minister Kim Wilson told an Economic Roundtable Meeting on Wednesday th...
DATE: Oct 03, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
The principal of Bermuda’s only special school must be given leadership training, according to an arbitrator who found she poorly managed a high-flying and dedicated teacher.
Dena Butterfield-Lister, head of Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy, was deeme...
DATE: Sep 29, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda could be in line to benefit from charity cash generated by the UK Lottery, according to a British Government minister visiting the Island.
Henry Bellingham told a press conference at Government House it seemed “quite wrong and anomalous” for ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Cabinet Minister Glenn Blakeney insisted yesterday a “great deal of attention” was being paid to updating Bermuda’s Human Rights Act.
The Minister of Youth, Families and Sports made the comment after Amnesty International Bermuda chastised the Govern...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief last night failed to get reselected as the Progressive Labour Party candidate for his Pembroke Central constituency, losing out to former Senator Walton Brown.
Mr Perinchief is understood to have picked up ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda could be in line to benefit from charity cash generated by the UK Lottery, according to a British government minister visiting the Island.
Henry Bellingham told a press conference at Government House today it seemed “quite wrong and anomalous...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
The head of a global charity has lent his support to a campaign to get sexual orientation added to Bermuda’s Human Rights Act.
Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, signed a postcard calling for the Act to be amended at the organi...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Progressive Labour Party MP Dennis Lister last night saw off a challenge for his Sandys North Central seat, claiming there was “never a chance” he could have lost it. Mr Lister comfortably won against the party’s executive officer Joella Dawn Simmons...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Tributes were paid yesterday to a nurse who helped create hospice care for terminally ill patients in Bermuda.
Hilary Soares, the first clinical coordinator of Agape House Hospice, died on Friday aged 70 of the autoimmune disease ALS (amyotrophic lat...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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