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Premier Ewart Brown has rejected a suggestion by Opposition Leader Kim Swan to extend this year's Budget debate and restrict the amount of time given to each MP to speak.
Mr. Swan wrote to Dr. Brown on January 30 with suggestions for how both politic...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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Bermuda can expect gale force weather today — but a repeat performance of Monday's severe storm is not expected.
Forecasters said last night that southwesterly winds would increase from late afternoon onwards from strong to gale force and would get w...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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A scheme to get Bermudians off the wall and into permanent work was launched yesterday by Labour Minister David Burch, with the backing of the construction industry.
Six firms have agreed to take on workers who have graduated from the Island's Hustle...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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The expert charged with transforming Bermuda's public schools is likely to leave the Island before his two-year contract runs out in June, The Royal Gazette has been told.
Three sources say that US consultant Henry Johnson — brought here on a $250,00...
DATE: Feb 10, 2009
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Johndell Cumberbatch is unlikely to ever forget how to spell exhilaration — his perfect execution of the word on Saturday night helped him win a Disney holiday for his family.
The eight-year-old East End Primary School pupil was the champion of Spell...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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A new Bermudian company has teamed up with an American school to offer a cheap way for employers here and throughout the Caribbean to train their workforce without sending them off-island.
Michael Stowe, president and CEO of Alliance Workforce Soluti...
DATE: Feb 04, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown has been given an award by fundraisers for a Caribbean university which Bermuda is planning to strike up a financial deal with.
The American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) presented him with its Luminary ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2009
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The Ministry of Education has had to scale back on plans to appoint assistant directors to oversee each of the new "clusters" of public schools, The Royal Gazette understands.
Four $110,000+-a-year posts were advertised yesterday, but sources say the...
DATE: Jan 31, 2009
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Former Finance Minister Grant Gibbons has questioned the PLP's commitment to opening up the parliamentary committee which scrutinises public spending, pointing out that it rejected such a move in 2004.
Dr. Gibbons was responding to a claim made earli...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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Government backbencher Walter Lister has said he is certain the parliamentary committee which scrutinises public spending will soon stop meeting in secret.
The veteran PLP MP, who sits on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), told The Royal Gazette: "...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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