85 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "News" author Tim Smith
Public sector workers could be laid off this fiscal year, Finance Minister Bob Richards warned as he lamented the union leadership’s refusal to continue with furlough days.
Mr Richards said job losses could no longer be ruled out as Government trims ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2015
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The Civil Service must be cut after the coming fiscal year, Finance Minister Bob Richards warned as he outlined the advantages of mutualisation or privatisation.
Staff lay-offs will be inevitable unless “non-core functions” are outsourced after 2014/...
DATE: Feb 21, 2014
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Former Attorney General Phil Perinchief is today quitting the Progressive Labour Party to run as an Independent in the general election.
Mr Perinchief, 68, a PLP Cabinet Minister in 2006 and 2007, will take on Junior Finance Minister David Burt and t...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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Tim Smith
Ombudsman Arlene Brock warned Government not to interfere with her future decisions as she lamented the pressure she faced over her Tucker’s Point SDO probe.
Ms Brock said she was asked, advised, cajoled and urged to scrap her investigation during si...
DATE: Jun 30, 2012
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Independence supporter Walton Brown believes the UK aims to step up its power over Overseas Territories through its newly released White Paper.
But Governor George Fergusson argues the Foreign Office document merely underlines the UK’s renewed commit...
DATE: Jun 29, 2012
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Tim Smith
He may now be blind in one eye, but Governor George Fergusson hasn’t lost sight of the things that really matter as he settles into life in Bermuda.
Joking he would have preferred to view his new Island home with two eyes rather than one, he told The...
DATE: Jun 11, 2012
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Newly tabled legislation will help pave the way for a referendum on Independence, according to Attorney General Kim Wilson.
Senator Wilson said the Referendum Act, due to be debated in the House of Assembly, augments existing laws setting out the par...
DATE: Jun 07, 2012
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Tim Smith
It was red, white and blue all the way as Bermudians, expatriates and visitors celebrated the Diamond Jubilee over the weekend.
In London, five Bermuda Sea Cadets joined a diamond formation with 54 other cadet dinghies, in the nearly 10-mile pageant ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2012
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Attorney General Kim Wilson will represent Bermuda at a decolonisation conference later this month.
The United Nations has invited Senator Wilson to its Pacific Regional Seminar on the implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradicat...
DATE: May 22, 2012
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Tim Smith
Government Whip Lovitta Foggo is leading an all-female delegation for a parliamentary conference in Jamaica.
The Bermuda branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is in Kingston for the 50th year of the island’s independence.
Ms Foggo, the...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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