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The Bermuda Government is still pursuing the trustees of failed sports facility Sandys 360 for hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ cash paid out by mistake.
A public access to information request by The Royal Gazette to the Ministry of Fin...
DATE: May 05, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
Earlier this month, in a boardroom at the Parliamentary Registry on Wesley Street in Hamilton, a group of local politicians and two overseas visitors sat poring over a large map of Bermuda, discussing how best to divide this tiny island into constitu...
DATE: Apr 30, 2016
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The number of registered voters has risen by almost six per cent in the past six years, with 2,388 more people on the electoral roll now than in June 2010.
Parliamentary registrar Tenia Woolridge told The Royal Gazette there were 41,355 Bermudians re...
DATE: Apr 30, 2016
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A struggling charity that issued a plea for help this month in The Royal Gazette has since been “inundated” with calls of support.
Allison Figureido, the founder and director of BSMART Foundation, said yesterday she had held meetings with accountants...
DATE: Apr 27, 2016
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David Burt, the Shadow Minister of Finance, has admitted he knew in advance that Government members of the Public Accounts Committee could not attend its last meeting, as all had sent their apologies to him beforehand.
Committee chairman Mr Burt told...
DATE: Apr 27, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
Falling house prices in Bermuda mean the threshold for properties which come under rent control is to be reduced.
Homes with an annual rental value of $27,000 or less are regulated by the Rent Commission to give tenants in lower-value properties secu...
DATE: Apr 25, 2016
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Members of the Public Accounts Committee are at loggerheads over whether chairman David Burt should have ordered a senior civil servant to provide them with the full agreement on the new airport.
Correspondence obtained by The Royal Gazette reveals t...
DATE: Apr 22, 2016
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The Bermuda Government has rejected a freedom of information request for a raft of documents detailing how the new multimillion-dollar airport deal will work.
And it has also refused to release a legal opinion on whether Bermuda needs the approval of...
DATE: Apr 21, 2016
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The referendum on marriage equality could take place in less than ten weeks but all is so far quiet on the campaign front.
The two-question ballot — which will ask whether voters are in favour of same-sex marriage and whether they are in favour of sa...
DATE: Apr 15, 2016
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The founder of a struggling charity which focuses on developing children’s brains is appealing to corporate Bermuda to look beyond the well-connected, “big names” in the third sector and consider sponsoring a smaller operation.
Former public schoolte...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
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