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Changes to the application process for the controversial Travel Authorisation Form will make it speedier and less stressful, Kim Wilson, the Minister for Health, told MPs yesterday.
Ms Wilson said that future revisions would ensure a faster service ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Urgent funding of more than $500,000 is being given to three nursing homes to help them to keep going after the Covid pandemic, MPs heard yesterday.
Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, told the House of Assembly that action...
DATE: Jul 16, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Financial initiatives aimed at trying to ease the cost of living crisis are expected to be being unveiled by David Burt, the Premier, in the House today.
Mr Burt, who is also finance minister, will outline a “Government relief package” after widespre...
DATE: Jul 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
The Government is still stonewalling questions about why it failed to involve the police after it accused a debt recovery company it hired of committing a “criminal offence”.
A secret court settlement was made with Oarrs Inc in May, but ministers...
DATE: Jul 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
An Opposition MP has demanded to know why the Government did not bring in the police when it alleged a company it hired to collect taxes on its behalf without a licence had committed a “criminal offence”.
The controversy erupted after it emerged the ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
The Bermuda Government E-tax website crashed for a time yesterday, causing concern among some employers trying to file their payroll tax returns.
The hub is also used by businesses for other taxes like land tax.
The incident sparked alarm as Friday i...
DATE: Jul 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A trip by David Burt, the Premier, to Switzerland to attend a crypto conference cost more than $13,000.
The Premier attended the Crypto Finance Conference from January 11 to 15 and a post on the ministerial travel calendar stated: “Growing and divers...
DATE: Jul 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Clarence Hill, one of Bermuda’s greatest Olympians, has been honoured as two large pictures of his glory days in the boxing ring went on display in the centre of Hamilton.
The depictions on the side of the post office on Church Street hang alongside ...
DATE: Jul 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
The constitutional stand-off over whether Bermuda is allowed to legalise cannabis took a new twist as it emerged the British foreign secretary is currently considering if the controversial move can go ahead.
It remains unclear when Liz Truss, who is ...
DATE: Jul 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A freeze on gas prices is “unsustainable”, fuel companies have warned.
A block on pump payment increases has been touted by David Burt, the Premier, as one of the Government’s flagship moves to try and limit the cost-of-living crisis.
But fuel compan...
DATE: Jul 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly