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A government grant scheme which supports green projects has been shelved this year — but applicants have yet to be told officially that there may be no funding.
Each year, $100,000 is dished out by Government to groups and individuals who come up wit...
DATE: Mar 10, 2009
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Flagstone Re boss Mark Byrne has been appointed chairman of a newly revamped and permanent Board of Education.
Belco President Vince Ingham is the new deputy chairman and other members include PLP MP Ashfield DeVent, businessman Darren Johnston and F...
DATE: Mar 09, 2009
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Stark images of violence against women — including an "adulteress" being stoned to death in Iran — were on display in Hamilton to highlight International Women's Day.
The graphic photographs from around the world were exhibited outside the library by...
DATE: Mar 09, 2009
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A petition containing the signatures of more than 5,000 people who oppose the building of a beach bar on Warwick Long Bay was delivered to Premier Dr. Ewart Brown outside Parliament yesterday.
Protesters waving placards asked Dr. Brown and Environmen...
DATE: Mar 07, 2009
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A middle-aged caregiver yesterday admitting stealing almost $16,000 from her vulnerable elderly patient after gaining "total control" of his life.
Gaynette Holder is likely to be jailed next month for abusing the position of trust she was placed in w...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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When Esther James-Liverpool flew to Bermuda in December 2005 to see her Uncle George she found "a very sad and solemn old man" — nothing like the person she had known and loved for decades. The once proud ship's captain, born in 1908, had been reduce...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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Public Safety Minister David Burch's call for more aggressive Police action was "the most arrogant and dangerous diatribe" he has ever made, an Opposition MP said yesterday.
Shadow Attorney General Mark Pettingill claimed Senator Burch was "borderlin...
DATE: Mar 05, 2009
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Police need to take "decisive, aggressive and appropriately violent action" to tackle Bermuda's criminals, Public Safety Minister David Burch claimed yesterday.
The Minister, defending a $2.3 million cut in the Policing budget this year, told a press...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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MPs have approved legislation which will allow Government to increase its overdraft from $15 million to more than $110 million this year.
The Temporary Loans Amendment Act 2009 was passed in the House of Assembly on Monday evening and will enable Gov...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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Shadow Housing Minister Donte Hunt has said Government needs to "drill down more" and give better detail on planned projects in their annual Budget. The Opposition MP told the House of Assembly on Monday that he couldn't see an overall plan for housi...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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