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A failed sports centre could still be a success if more public money was spent on it, a former MP who led the project in its early years said yesterday.
Walter Lister told The Royal Gazette the financial collapse of the Sandys 360 sports centre and p...
DATE: Mar 23, 2018
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A bank that has allegedly lost more than $4,000 of a customer’s money has told him it will take six to eight weeks to investigate where it went.
Cleon Scotland, the former St George’s Cup Match and Bermuda cricketer, said he was still without his fun...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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More than half a million dollars was spent on salaries for permanent and contract staff at the failed sports centre Sandys 360 in its final year of operation, the organisation’s unaudited financial statement has revealed.
The centre paid $404,928 in ...
DATE: Mar 21, 2018
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The public are to fork out $1 million to pay off the mortgage on the failed Sandys 360 sports centre and lender HSBC has agreed to write off more than $8 million.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, minister of public works, told MPs that HSBC was prepar...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
The Government’s attempt to become a top financial technology centre could be threatened by its attitude to foreign workers and “closed-minded” view of gay marriage, an Opposition senator warned yesterday.
Andrew Simons told the Upper Chamber during ...
DATE: Mar 15, 2018
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The Chief Justice has revealed why he barred the media and public from a court hearing involving an attempt by the island’s gaming commission to silence its former executive director.
The chambers session on March 7 in the matter of Bermuda Casino Ga...
DATE: Mar 14, 2018
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
A senior citizen who contested two wills drawn up for her father when she believes he was suffering from dementia now faces losing everything she owns to pay for the legal battle.
Retired government worker Elaine Charles, 70, told The Royal Gazette s...
DATE: Mar 09, 2018
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The construction firm that built the failed Sandys 360 sports centre is still owed more than $1 million almost nine years after work was completed.
BCM McAlpine was never paid in full after being hired for the $10 million job and its smaller subcontr...
DATE: Mar 02, 2018
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Taxpayers have forked out at least $5.3 million on the failed Sandys 360 facility, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The now-shuttered sports centre, which the Government plans to buy for $1 million and renovate for an as-yet-unknown sum, was funded with...
DATE: Feb 28, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
A date has been set for a Supreme Court challenge against a new law designed to replace same-sex marriage with domestic partnerships.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley will hear the civil case brought by gay Bermudian Rod Ferguson, 38, against Attorney-Gener...
DATE: Feb 28, 2018
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Sam Strangeways