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A controversial proposal to pay top civil servants according to their performance is included in the draft version of the Government's sustainable development plan.
Charting Our Course: Sustaining Bermuda suggests that performance-related pay is need...
DATE: Aug 07, 2006
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The head civil servant at the Human Rights Commission (HRC) has resigned following complaints about his work ? just weeks after the chairman of the Government board also stepped down.
Executive officer David Wilson handed his notice in after a report...
DATE: Aug 07, 2006
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The Bermuda-based businessman ordered to pay his ex-wife one of the biggest divorce settlements in British legal history has said he will take his case to the highest court of appeal in the UK.
John Charman, 53, chief executive officer and president ...
DATE: Aug 07, 2006
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An in-depth review of the way Government boards are appointed and carry out their work is needed, according to a new report on the best way forward for Bermuda.
Charting Our Course: Sustaining Bermuda ? a draft strategy for the Island?s long-term fut...
DATE: Aug 07, 2006
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A Government-run golf course has been left high and dry after paid-for grass was never delivered by an American supplier, which it is claimed has gone bust.
The president of St. George?s Golf Club is calling for part of the East End course to be clos...
DATE: Aug 05, 2006
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An insurance magnate based in Bermuda has been ordered to pay his ex-wife ?48 million ($91.5 million) at London?s High Court in what is believed to be the biggest-ever settlement in a contested divorce case in British legal history.
John Charman, 53,...
DATE: Aug 05, 2006
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An MP?s fears that illiterate seniors are not receiving their pensions due to a new bank account payment system are unfounded, a Government spokesman said yesterday.
United Bermuda Party MP Suzann Roberts-Holshouser said she was aware of residents in...
DATE: Aug 01, 2006
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A 104-year-old map depicting the driving and cycling routes of Bermuda at the start of the last century has been returned to the Island by a tourist who was given it by her mother.
The brown paper folded map was specially compiled for and published i...
DATE: Jul 31, 2006
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Deputy Premier Ewart Brown has ruled himself out of the running for Progressive Labour Party leader this year ? increasing the likelihood of Premier Alex Scott remaining unchallenged in the top job.
Mr. Scott?s term as party leader ends in October an...
DATE: Jul 29, 2006
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Firefighters rushed to a blaze at a Hamilton home yesterday morning after reports that the householders were still inside.
They discovered that two people who had been in the property on Washington Street, at the junction with Elliott Street, had man...
DATE: Jul 29, 2006
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