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Students will get to travel free on buses and ferries from September after new regulations were approved by MPs on Friday.
Premier and Transport Minister Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly that the free passes — to be given to all students on the...
DATE: Jul 14, 2008
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Measures to prevent civil servants misappropriating public funds are still not in place four years after fraudster Harrison Isaac Jr. swindled almost $2 million from government.
Auditor General Larry Dennis says in his annual report that accounting c...
DATE: Jul 14, 2008
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Three of the UK MPs calling for freedom of information legislation in the British Overseas Territories have spoken out about why Bermuda would benefit from such a law.
John Horam, Malcolm Moss and Andrew Mackinlay visited the Island in March as part ...
DATE: Jul 14, 2008
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Government departments' tardiness in producing financial statements is getting worse and some are overspending by millions of dollars each year, according to Auditor General Larry Dennis.
His annual report reveals that for the last three years statem...
DATE: Jul 14, 2008
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A law allowing Bermuda Hospitals Board to enter into public-private partnerships was passed in the House of Assembly last night.
Health Minister Nelson Bascome told MPs that the Bermuda Hospitals Board Amendment (No. 2) Act 2008 would mean the board ...
DATE: Jul 12, 2008
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The Berkeley Institute has scored a century — 100 students have graduated from the school this year.
And many of the school leavers celebrating gaining their Bermuda School Certificate (BSC) have secured places at universities overseas.
Principal Mic...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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Parents are pulling their children out of Whitney Institute Middle School amid fears that the unsafe school will not reopen in September.
The Royal Gazette understands that the parents of as many as 20 students have applied for their offspring to beg...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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Calls by UK MPs for freedom of information legislation to be introduced in all the British Overseas Territories should spur Bermuda into action, according to former Premier Alex Scott.
A newly published report from the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (F...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Calls by UK MPs for freedom of information legislation to be introduced in all the British Overseas Territories should spur Bermuda into action, according to former Premier Alex Scott.
A newly published report from the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (F...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Taxpayers have forked out more than $11,000 on US education expert Henry Johnson's trips home in the past eight months.
The $250,000-a-year consultant — brought to Bermuda last August to transform public schools — has flown business class back to the...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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