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The Corporation of Hamilton has recommended to Government that every adult living in Hamilton be allowed to vote in City elections.
The elected members of the municipality also want to do away with aldermen, give the Mayor less power and get paid for...
DATE: Nov 04, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton yesterday defended the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars on overseas consultants, insisting they were needed to help transform public schools.
Mr. Horton told The Royal Gazette: "These are people who have ac...
DATE: Nov 01, 2008
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Frustrated trade unionists have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) asking it to intervene with Government to ensure they are consulted on the overhaul of the public education system.
Anthony Wolffe, president of Bermuda Trades Uni...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Government will attempt next month to extend a protection order banning two men from the home of an elderly woman they allegedly abused.
An interim order preventing the men from going to 75-year-old 'Miss C's' home was issued on September 30, after C...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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Citizens making complaints to the Human Rights Commission are being urged to settle their disputes by mediation rather than a lengthy investigation.
HRC chairman Venous Memari said the commission — which receives about 650 queries a year, of which on...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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PLP Ministers yesterday spoke out in support of their candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Southampton West Central.
Senator Marc Bean, Junior Minister for Tourism, Transport, Environment and Sport, will run against the Opposition's Charlie S...
DATE: Oct 28, 2008
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Sir John Swan last night urged "arrogant" Bermudians to stop arguing about race and unite to counter the effects of the world economic crisis on the Island.
The former Premier told an audience at Pembroke Sunday School: "We need to recognise that we ...
DATE: Oct 28, 2008
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Belco has obtained a court injunction against workers it claims are taking unsanctioned industrial action because of a long-running wage dispute.
The power provider said in a statement that "unprecedented absences" and refusals to work overtime by in...
DATE: Oct 27, 2008
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British billionaire Richard Branson departed Bermuda on Saturday — but the sailboat he arrived on remains moored at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.
Virgin Money, a 99ft maxi yacht in which Sir Richard, his two children and an international crew were at...
DATE: Oct 27, 2008
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The Corporation of Hamilton has paid $70,000 to a consultant to settle a breach of contract lawsuit before it gets to court.
Accountant Mike Hardy, of Noa Ltd., told The Royal Gazette yesterday he felt vindicated by the payment and accused the munici...
DATE: Oct 27, 2008
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