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Grotto Bay will get tax concessions of $500,000 on its new renovation programme after MPs passed legislation in the House of Assembly yesterday.
The Hotels Concession (Grotto Bay Beach Resort) Order is the 14th order giving tax breaks to a hotel sinc...
DATE: Feb 13, 2010
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The need for drastic action to save the Island's struggling economy will be the focus of MPs' attention at the House of Assembly today.
United Bermuda Party Leader Kim Swan is to open a debate about the Bermuda First report which calls for major refo...
DATE: Feb 12, 2010
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Long-serving MP Alex Scott yesterday encouraged young people to put themselves forward as election candidates — but argued seasoned veterans should not be expected to simply step aside.
The former Progressive Labour Party Premier said the emergence o...
DATE: Feb 12, 2010
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Government Senator Thaao Dill has appealed for people to give generously towards aid relief in Haiti after returning from a trip to the crisis-struck Caribbean country.
On Wednesday, Sen. Dill told the Upper House of his eye-opening experiences inclu...
DATE: Feb 12, 2010
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The Premier's race relations consultant Rolfe Commissiong is to head up a new programme aimed at helping Bermudians on the stop list get access to the United States.
Premier Ewart Brown this morning announced Government’s Visa Waiver Assistance Progr...
DATE: Feb 12, 2010
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More than 20 young Progressive Labour Party members are said to be ready to break the party old guard's stranglehold and emerge as candidates at the next General Election.
One potential new face — 28-year-old party organiser Makai Dickerson — yesterd...
DATE: Feb 11, 2010
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Bermuda Police will be issued with Taser devices amid fears they are being plunged into conflicts which could end up with a suspect being shot.
Public Safety Minister David Burch said he has approved the purchase of Tasers — which use electricity to ...
DATE: Feb 11, 2010
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White Hill Field's clubhouse — built for the community, by the community, four decades ago — stood for years as a symbol of what can be achieved when people get together to do something good.
Yet since the building's demolition in October 2008,the la...
DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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Bermuda's families must learn from the mistakes of the past and confront the harsh realities of the drugs problem gripping the Island, according to long-serving Sandys South MP Terry Lister.
The former Cabinet Minister has witnessed first-hand how so...
DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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Bermuda's MPs and civil servants could be heading to India to improve their technical know-how after Premier Ewart Brown was offered a deal by an Indian Minister.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor raised the suggestion during a lu...
DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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