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Premier Paula Cox has pledged to get taxpayers more involved in the Government’s spending decisions and policy making.
The Finance Minister said in her Budget statement on Friday she planned to begin work shortly on developing a more transparent meth...
DATE: Feb 22, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The annual cost of parliamentarians’ salaries now tops $4 million, according to new figures released by Government.
The highest earner is Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox on $224,000 a year; she earns $8,000 less than Governor Sir Richard Gozne...
DATE: Feb 22, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Premier David Saul has stepped down from the Buy Back Bermuda committee but the Bermuda National Trust (BNT) yesterday begged him to reconsider.
Dr Saul has been involved with the volunteer campaign, which raises funds to purchase land and sav...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards last night poured scorn on Premier Paula Cox’s claim that she will slash tens of millions of dollars from this year’s Budget by reducing capital spending.
Finance Minister Ms Cox said in her Budget statement her p...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Andy Warhol once said in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
Annie Young certainly had her moment in the spotlight yesterday arguably for all the wrong reasons.
Ms Young is the owner of True Reflections, a Hamilton store selling every...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s chess players did their bit for tourism at the weekend attracting scores of overseas visitors for an international competition.
Participants in the 27th Bermuda International Open Chess Tournament came from all over the world, including Uga...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Cutting payroll tax may help to staunch job losses but won’t necessarily create new employment, business leaders warned yesterday.
They welcomed the decision by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox to drop payroll tax to 14 percent after increasing...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Ministry of Education is refusing to say whether it has appointed a principal for Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy more than three years after the last one left.
Dr Dena Lister is listed on the Ministry’s website as principal but there has never b...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Three business leaders from Bermuda were in the capital of Bahrain when violence erupted there on Wednesday night.
Cheryl Packwood, Stuart Lacey and Belaid Jheengoor hosted a conference promoting the Island’s financial services just streets from wher...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A business delegation from Bermuda was in Bahrain yesterday as police clashed with protestors in the capital Manama.
Stuart Lacey, managing director of Altree Financial, captured a photograph of tanks rolling into the city as he fled the violence las...
DATE: Feb 17, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
