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Bermuda Industrial Union leaders are threatening to hold a general meeting of all members if a private company which sacked seven workers last week doesn’t reinstate them.
BIU president Chris Furbert told a press conference this afternoon he couldn’t...
DATE: Feb 28, 2011
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Local companies interested in helping build Bermuda’s new hospital are invited to a meeting next week.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kim Wilson is holding the session on Monday at 10am at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, in partnership with mai...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Like millions of movie lovers around the world, Bermudian Mark Jones will be glued to the television for the Oscars on Sunday evening.
But the 33-year-old will have more reason than most to be rooting for Best Picture contender The King’s Speech, sin...
DATE: Feb 25, 2011
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Union chief Chris Furbert today accused local footballing legend Shaun Goater of sacking workers at his airport services company because they joined the BIU.
Mr Furbert claimed Mr Goater and his business partner Nick Faries at Renaissance Aviation we...
DATE: Feb 24, 2011
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Hundreds of people attended a public meeting to hear Cabinet Ministers quizzed on the annual Budget last night.
International business (IB), tourism, pensions, welfare, illegal workers and Ministers’ salaries were some of the issues which came up at ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2011
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Taxpayers can quiz Premier Paula Cox and her Cabinet on this year’s Budget at a meeting this evening.
The town hall session will take place at Number Six Shed, Front Street, at 6.30pm.
Ms Cox will be joined by Ministers to discuss topics including th...
DATE: Feb 23, 2011
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Bermuda’s chess players did their bit for tourism at the weekend attracting scores of overseas visitors for an international competition.
Participants in the 27th Bermuda International Open Chess Tournament came from all over the world, including Uga...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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Three business leaders from Bermuda were in the capital of Bahrain when violence erupted there on Wednesday night.
Cheryl Packwood, Stuart Lacey and Belaid Jheengoor hosted a conference promoting the Island’s financial services just streets from wher...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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A business delegation from Bermuda was in Bahrain yesterday as police clashed with protestors in the capital Manama.
Stuart Lacey, managing director of Altree Financial, captured a photograph of tanks rolling into the city as he fled the violence las...
DATE: Feb 17, 2011
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According to her last boss, Tekania Swan is a “very bright and energetic individual who takes exceptional pride in her work” and is a “person of utmost integrity and honesty”.
The 33-year-old is described by the manager of the furniture store where s...
DATE: Feb 16, 2011
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