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Government overspending of more than $23 million was approved by MPs in the House of Assembly last night.
The extra expenditure last year included a $15 million subsidy for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and $3.8 million on salaries, back pay and ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2010
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Government has confirmed that cleaning up polluted Morgan's Point will cost almost $30 million but has not set any money aside in this year's Budget for the project.
Ministry of Works and Engineering permanent secretary Robert Horton told The Royal G...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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A sign at the entrance to Morgan's Point on George's Bay Road warns visitors: "No trespassing." But most people would not want to go to the former US base land, which straddles the Southampton and Sandys parishes.
It is heavily polluted with oil, jet...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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His name has been linked with several high-profile luxury resorts in Turks and Caicos — but Patrick Ellis seems reluctant to talk about his involvement with any of them.
The hotels themselves also seem less than keen to discuss the part Mr. Ellis pla...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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Shadow Labour Minister Michael Dunkley has pledged to show up to a Bermudians-only meeting — without his passport.
The Opposition politician objected this week to the language used in an invitation from Labour Minister David Burch to locals working i...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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Labour Minister David Burch yesterday hit back at Opposition claims that his invitation to Bermudians to attend a locals-only meeting on work permit term limits was "divisive and inflammatory".
Senator Burch asked Islanders working in international b...
DATE: Mar 18, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown's new press secretary is being paid about $30,000 a year less than his predecessors.
Jamahl Simmons told The Royal Gazette he was receiving an annual salary of $71,110 for the full-time job, which is publicly funded but a politica...
DATE: Mar 18, 2010
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An invitation to Bermudians from Labour Minister David Burch to attend a locals-only meeting on work permit term limits has been described as "divisive and inflammatory" by the Opposition.
Senator Burch sent an e-mail on Monday about the April 8 clos...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown admitted yesterday he gave the Opposition just half a minute to talk on the Cabinet Office budget in Parliament because it wouldn't reschedule a debate on Tourism spending. Dr. Brown, who is also Tourism Minister, told a press con...
DATE: Mar 16, 2010
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Former United Bermuda Party MP Jamahl Simmons was yesterday named as the Premier's new press secretary — just a few months after stepping down as executive aide.
Mr. Simmons replaces Arnold Minors, whose departure was announced last week after he ser...
DATE: Mar 16, 2010
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