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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Regiment should not have tried to hush-up the attempted rape of a soldier in Grenada, according to a conscript who was on the 2005 hurricane-relief trip.
The man, who asked not to be named, told The Royal Gazette he was “disgusted” that the R...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ombudsman Arlene Brock found 30 examples of maladministration in Government and other public bodies in the last year.
Her latest annual report, tabled in the House of Assembly yesterday, cites cases involving 16 different departments, quangos or boar...
DATE: Feb 05, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Glowing personal tributes to a founding father of the Progressive Labour Party who later represented the United Bermuda Party were paid in the House of Assembly yesterday.
A special two-hour session was held to commemorate lawyer Arnold Francis, the ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways