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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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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Free tuition at Bermuda College may be replaced with “discounted” tuition, Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith revealed yesterday.
And such a change may not necessarily be a bad thing, according to Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons, who also...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards last night described an increase in fees for visitors seeking extended stays on the Island as “nonsensical” and a “throwback to an age of dinosaurs”.
He told the House of Assembly he couldn’t understand why Govern...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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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
A legal challenge against the appointment of a principal at a special school could be launched, The Royal Gazette understands.
A staff member at Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy, which has about 25 students with multiple physical and cognitive challen...
DATE: Mar 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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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
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Andy Warhol once said in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
Annie Young certainly had her moment in the spotlight yesterday arguably for all the wrong reasons.
Ms Young is the owner of True Reflections, a Hamilton store selling every...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Ministry of Education is refusing to say whether it has appointed a principal for Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy more than three years after the last one left.
Dr Dena Lister is listed on the Ministry’s website as principal but there has never b...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
