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Government has drastically reduced the amount of road resurfacing it aims to do each year, according to Opposition MP Grant Gibbons.
He raised concerns in the House of Assembly after Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess said the highways section of ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government backbencher Dale Butler revealed yesterday it was “very painful” for him to vote for a Special Development Order (SDO) for Rosewood Tucker’s Point in the House of Assembly.
But he admitted he did so knowing a general election is likely in ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
One of Bermuda’s best-known entertainers became the subject of a heated spat in the House of Assembly this week.
MPs heard on Wednesday that Gene Steede, 70, who was inducted into Bermuda Music Hall of Fame in 2009, would be performing on a tour orga...
DATE: Mar 04, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last night asked Premier Paula Cox to name the Cabinet consultants who have had their services axed after “unnecessarily feeding at the trough”.
The Opposition MP applauded the fact that the Cabine...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A reduction in spending on Cabinet Office departments in the coming fiscal year will not be as dramatic as Government would like us to believe, according to former Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons.
He told the House of Assembly last night that the 17 ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Industrial Union leaders have threatened to hold a general meeting of all members if a private company which sacked seven workers doesn’t reinstate them.
BIU president Chris Furbert told a press conference yesterday he couldn’t predict what a...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A publicly-funded not-for-profit organisation aimed at helping Bermuda’s small business owners is sitting on $1.5 million in cash reserves.
And, according to Trade Minister Kim Wilson, the surplus money should ensure Bermuda Small Business Developmen...
DATE: Mar 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Cabinet Minister in charge of the two main pillars of Bermuda’s economy is part-time but Patrice Minors insisted yesterday that wasn’t a problem.
Ms Minors, Minister for Business Development and Tourism, is the only member of Premier Paula Cox’s ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Regiment commanding officer Edward Lamb said yesterday he used the “full brunt of the law” to discipline a soldier who assaulted another soldier in Grenada in 2005.
The private was given 56 days in military prison after an incident described b...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Questions have been raised as to whether the Bermuda Regiment properly handled a soldier-on-soldier assault after it was described in court this week as an attempted knifepoint rape.
Regiment commanding officer (CO) Brian Gonsalves told a Supreme Cou...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
