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Deputy Premier Paula Cox launched an angry attack on the Opposition at the weekend after criticism of the Government's financial controls.
She said the United Bermuda Party needed to "get a grip on reality" during an early hours debate on Saturday in...
DATE: Mar 13, 2007
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Government has lost almost $2.5 million in parking fines in the last three years by allowing more than 49,000 tickets to go unpaid.
There were 117,794 parking tickets issued in the City of Hamilton in 2004, 2005 and 2006 but only 68,091 — or just und...
DATE: Mar 13, 2007
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Hospital fee increases of 7.5 percent were approved by MPs in the House of Assembly on Friday.
Junior Health Minister Patrice Minors, presenting the Bermuda Hospitals Board (Hospital Fees) Regulations 2007 said the rise would give King Edward VII Mem...
DATE: Mar 13, 2007
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Deputy Premier launched an angry attack on the Opposition at the weekend after criticism of the Government's financial controls.
She said the United Bermuda Party needed to "get a grip on reality" during an early hours debate on Saturday in the House...
DATE: Mar 13, 2007
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Senator David Burch last night rebutted claims that he failed to spend millions of dollars set aside in last year's budget for housing.
The Housing Minister told the Senate: "We are accused of no money for housing; I've got a math lesson for you," be...
DATE: Mar 13, 2007
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Government has lost almost $2.5 million in parking fines in the last three years by allowing more than 49,000 tickets to go unpaid.
There were 117,794 parking tickets issued in the City of Hamilton in 2004, 2005 and 2006 but only 68,091 ? or just und...
DATE: Mar 13, 2007
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A "wellness co-ordinator" has been appointed by Government to tackle the number of bus drivers taking sick leave — a problem which cost the country tens of thousands of dollars last year.
Premier Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly on Friday that ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Housing Minister David Burch last night refused to take back an accusation that his fellow Senator Gina Spence-Farmer behaved in a way that “bordered on criminal” regarding squatters at the derelict Club Med buildings.
Sen. Burch first criticised her...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Burglars stole tools and a television after breaking into a Hamilton Parish construction site. The break-in happened at about 8.20 a.m. last Thursday on Harrington Sound Road. Police are investigating after a Makita grinder and Makita drill set and a...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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A bid to introduce flights from Munich to Bermuda proved a "failure" despite Government spending more than $1.5 million on the scheme, the Premier has admitted.
Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly: "This was one of our unsuccessful ventures in an ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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