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MPs held a minute's silence in memory of Barbara Ball in the House of Assembly this morning.
Speaker Stanley Lowe asked members to bow their heads to remember the former MP after several paid tribute to her commitment to workers' rights.
Premier Paul...
DATE: Mar 14, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Public consultation on a $4.9 million project to get rid of asbestos will take place in the coming financial year, according to Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess.
He told the House of Assembly a Canadian consulting company was commissioned to perform a ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2011
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Environment
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Sam Strangeways
Government has drastically reduced the amount of road resurfacing it aims to do each year, according to Opposition MP Grant Gibbons.
He raised concerns in the House of Assembly after Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess said the highways section of ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2011
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kim Wilson yesterday implored Bermudians to consider a career outdoors as she attended a job fair for landscape gardeners.
Thirty-four local landscaping companies joined in the event in the Bermuda College gymnasi...
DATE: Mar 11, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
The Hustle Truck initiative for the unemployed has not been axed, according to National Security Minister David Burch.
He told a town hall meeting in St. George’s on Tuesday: “The Hustle Truck is not dying. It is going nowhere. It’s going to be modif...
DATE: Mar 11, 2011
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The clean-up of pollution at Morgan’s Point will not go ahead in the coming financial year and the Causeway will not be replaced, the House of Assembly heard yesterday.
Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess told MPs there was no money available for e...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Ministry of Public Works will spend more than $300,000 on the Hustle Truck in 2011-12 prompting Shadow Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin to ask if the initiative has been saved from the axe.
She told the House of Assembly on Wednesday night it was...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Two young women have been arrested in connection with the gang-related fatal shooting of 26-year-old Jahmiko LeShore.
Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Pedro said yesterday the females, aged 21 and 22, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to com...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government backbencher Dale Butler revealed yesterday it was “very painful” for him to vote for a Special Development Order (SDO) for Rosewood Tucker’s Point in the House of Assembly.
But he admitted he did so knowing a general election is likely in ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government has tightened up the law to make clear it does have power to permit commercial leases of its properties for more than 50 years.
Its ability to grant such leases was challenged by the Auditor General, who asked the Supreme Court last year t...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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