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Former Premier David Saul yesterday urged Paula Cox to "earn her spurs" as Finance Minister by substantially raising taxes in next month's Budget and insisting on swingeing spending cuts.
Dr. Saul, who was Finance Minister during the last major world...
DATE: Jan 14, 2010
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Civil servants have been ordered to implement "austere cost savings" — including banning first and business class travel and a freeze on hiring new consultants — for the rest of the financial year.
A four-point plan approved by Cabinet to curtail spe...
DATE: Jan 13, 2010
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Bermuda had a per capita murder rate in 2009 more than five times that of London and higher than that of New York and the global average.
The three gun slayings which took place here in December — taking the total number of murders for 2009 to six — ...
DATE: Jan 09, 2010
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Bermuda's increased murder rate for 2009 is undoubtedly a "blemish" on the Island as an international financial centre, according to Deputy Premier Paula Cox.
The Finance Minister told The Royal Gazette that the six killings last year — including fou...
DATE: Jan 09, 2010
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Doctors are stumped as to how Bermuda's two fatal flu victims contracted the virus, with health officials revealing yesterday that relatives of the pair have not fallen sick.
The Department of Health announced on Wednesday that two Bermudians with in...
DATE: Jan 08, 2010
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A $100,000 reward is being offered to find the killers of the four men murdered in gang related shootings in the past month.
We Will Rise Above, Bermuda — a movement formed in the immediate wake of 30-year-old Kumi Harford’s death on St. Monica’s Roa...
DATE: Jan 07, 2010
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Lawyer Shade Subair is tipped to be the new chairman of the Human Rights Commission.
Her new role is expected to be made public on Friday, when the annual list of appointments to government boards and statutory bodies is published.
She will replace V...
DATE: Jan 06, 2010
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An American bird rarely spotted in Bermuda made it here for the Audubon Society's annual count on New Year's Eve.
Two western kingbirds — making their first appearance for a Christmas bird count — were among the 100 species and 8,682 individual birds...
DATE: Jan 06, 2010
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Perry Puckerin — Bermuda's first murder victim of 2010 — feared for his life in the weeks before he was killed, his heartbroken parents revealed yesterday.
Perry Sr. and Maxzine Puckerin told The Royal Gazette their eldest son was not involved in gan...
DATE: Jan 05, 2010
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Hurricane force gusts and severe thunderstorms were heading for Bermuda last night and residents have been told to beware of powerful winds likely to continue through the weekend.
Late yesterday evening Government announced it was closing the Causewa...
DATE: Jan 02, 2010
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