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The British Minister responsible for the UK's Overseas Territories will arrive on an official visit to the Island today.
Meg Munn MP, a Minister in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will stay until Saturday.
She was invited here by Deputy ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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A new organisation set up to represent parents seeking an improved public education system has issued its first statement — criticising the overseas consultant brought in by Government to implement change.
Bermuda Educational Parents' Association (BE...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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The British Minister responsible for the UK's Overseas Territories will arrive on an official visit to the Island tomorrow.
Meg Munn MP (pictured), a Minister in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will stay until Saturday.
She was invited h...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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Tourism in Bermuda may be enjoying its third year of growth — but a local family business is struggling to find customers.
Beeline Transportation brought three state-of-the-art tour buses to the Island from China a year ago at a cost of about $125,00...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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Mothers whose teenage sons have volunteered to take part in the Mirrors programme spoke yesterday of its "remarkable" benefits.
The $500,000 scheme was launched a year ago by Government to give "at risk" teens a chance to change their mindsets and ta...
DATE: Mar 25, 2008
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Senators approved a slew of finance bills at a session on Wednesday.
The following bills became law: the Bermuda Monetary Authority Amendment Act 2008, the Stamp Duties Amendment Act 2008, the Revenue Amendment Act 2008, the Customs Tariff Amendment ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2008
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Bermudians are producing too much garbage, hence the need to extend the Tynes Bay waste treatment facility, the Senate heard during a budget debate on Works and Engineering.
Government Senate Leader David Burch, responding to a question from Oppositi...
DATE: Mar 22, 2008
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Former CedarBridge Academy teacher Ulama Finn-Hendrickson has been reassigned to a school for children with behavioural problems.
Mrs. Finn-Hendrickson, who has an allergy which caused her to become ill while a teacher at mould-contaminated CedarBrid...
DATE: Mar 22, 2008
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When psychologist and writer Carol Shuman wrote in her newspaper column that Bermuda desperately needed a freedom of information law she thought she might ruffle a few feathers.
But she didn't expect to be asked by officials already working on secret...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
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Bermuda would "do well" to introduce public access to information legislation as soon as possible, according to the head of government in Cayman.
And Kurt Tibbetts, leader of the Cayman Islands' People's Progressive Movement, should know. He was inst...
DATE: Mar 20, 2008
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