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Poverty campaigner Sheelagh Cooper yesterday said other companies should heed the example of Belco for freezing its electricity rates because of the economic crisis.
Belco announced on Friday it is applying to the Energy Commission to defer a 1.5 per...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox's plan to save millions of dollars with a Civil Service shake-up is underway after an expert came to the Island ahead of a review.
The visit of Chris Cooper, of the UK's National School of Government, set the ball rolling for an ass...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
An arts education charity faces cutting programmes and laying off staff unless it can raise $300,000 by the end of January.
Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation, which has seen its funding and donations slashed during the economic crisis, yesterday called fo...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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Plans to lease land to the 9 Beaches developers for 240 years were stopped in their tracks after Senators raised concerns yesterday.
United Bermuda Party Senator Michael Dunkley and Independent Walwyn Hughes both questioned the length of time the lan...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Belco is to freeze its electricity rates as families struggle to pay their bills during the economic crisis.
But the electric company’s staff will miss out on salary increases as bosses delay the threat of redundancies and warn of more difficult mont...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
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Tim Smith
Police have issued advice to residents to prevent crime at Christmas.
The advisory relating to potential issues in the home and while out and about suggests:
l lock doors and windows when leaving the house, even for a few minutes;
l ask a neighbour o...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan yesterday hinted he'd like to reunite with his former Bermuda Democratic Alliance colleagues telling The Royal Gazette: “The ball's in their court.”
But the BDA ruled out a return to the UBP in its current form, w...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Marc Bean won last night's Warwick South Central by-election after taking 67 percent of the votes for the Progressive Labour Party.
Devrae Noel-Simmons of the United Bermuda Party came second, with the Bermuda Democratic Alliance's Sylvan Richards ju...
DATE: Dec 16, 2010
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Hundreds of voters and possibly one candidate are expected to be missing from the polling station at the Warwick South Central by-election today.
Devrae Noel-Simmons, of the United Bermuda Party, was last night recovering from surgery to remove his a...
DATE: Dec 15, 2010
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
PLP candidate Marc Bean stormed to victory tonight in the Warwick South Central by-election.
Mr Bean won 310 votes, the UBPs Devrae Noel-Simmons got 78 and Sylvan Richards of the BDA got 70.
However it was a very low turnout with an estimated 450 of ...
DATE: Dec 15, 2010
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