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Bermuda’s official unemployment rate is 4.5 percent, according to the first labour force survey conducted on the Island.
Premier Ewart Brown told a press conference this afternoon that 1,700 people were looking for work during the week in May last ye...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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Finance Minister Paula Cox admitted yesterday that Bermuda's Gross Domestic Product for 2009 could fall by as much as 2.5 percent — a revision of her earlier estimate of between one and 1.5 percent.
The Deputy Premier told a press conference that the...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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The number of people looking for work topped 1,700 during 2009, according to Bermuda's first comprehensive labour force survey.
And business leaders fear the figure — which represents a 4.5 percent unemployment rate — has risen since the study was co...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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The Corporation of Hamilton is evaluating a proposal to build four power plants to reduce the capital's carbon footprint and the cost of energy to building owners in the city.
The combined heat and power (CHP) units would use fossil fuel to generate ...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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The Corporation of Hamilton will need to spend almost $2 million more than originally estimated to improve the city's docks, a meeting heard yesterday.
Councillor Dennis Tucker, chairman of the finance committee, said a feasibility study projected th...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of burgling three homes during daylight in St. George's on Wednesday.
Two properties on Slippery Hill were broken into with nothing apparently taken from one and a 47in Panasonic flat screen television...
DATE: Feb 01, 2010
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A new parental responsibility law aimed at tackling crime and anti-social behaviour is not designed to hurt those already struggling financially, according to Attorney General Kim Wilson.
She told The Royal Gazette she understood why there were fears...
DATE: Feb 01, 2010
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A controversial new law making parents civilly liable for the crimes of their children will go before Parliament next month. But can it work in Bermuda? The Royal Gazette looks at the pros and cons of the Parental Responsibility Bill 2010.
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DATE: Feb 01, 2010
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In the space of ten days last month, Wesly Guiteau estimates that he helped 10,000 survivors of the earthquake which hit Haiti.
No small feat for a man who had never done any aid work before in his life — and the 39-year-old isn't finished yet.
Wesly...
DATE: Feb 01, 2010
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Bermudians will have to wait about a week longer than normal this year to find out how the Budget will hit their back pockets.
Finance Minister Paula Cox will deliver the National Budget Statement for 2010/11 in the House of Assembly on Friday, Febru...
DATE: Jan 30, 2010
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