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Plans for urgent care centres at either end of the Island moved further along yesterday through new legislation passed in the Upper House.
Senators approved a law which gives Bermuda Hospitals Board the power to provide health services outside King E...
DATE: Jul 24, 2008
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Overseas Tourism staff yesterday underwent individual meetings with senior Government officials as question marks continue to hang over how many will be made redundant.
Premier Ewart Brown's Press Secretary Glenn Jones confirmed they had been given t...
DATE: Jul 24, 2008
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Legislation to cut down the number of cars clogging Bermuda's roads was passed by the Senate yesterday.
Junior Transport Minister Marc Bean said the Motor Car and Landlord and Tenant Amendment Acts 2008 would attempt to shut a loophole which allows p...
DATE: Jul 24, 2008
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A radar outage at L.F. Wade International Airport means controllers have been guiding planes using little more than common sense and communication with pilots.
One controller claimed problems had been recurring for several weeks and had led to the po...
DATE: Jul 23, 2008
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Union boss Armell Thomas last night backed down from attacking Government's dealings with its HIP staff and issued an unreserved apology.
Mr. Thomas said his comments about the Health Insurance Plan in a press conference last week — which provoked ou...
DATE: Jul 22, 2008
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A Police investigation into former Health Minister Michael Scott's theft claim is continuing — eight months after he said a document "may have been stolen" from his office.
Mr. Scott made his allegation after a copy of his report on a "Saturday Group...
DATE: Jul 22, 2008
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards last night attacked Government for failing to anticipate problems with the economy.
Mr. Richards was speaking after Finance Minister Paula Cox reduced her 2008 growth forecast in the light of increasing inflation,...
DATE: Jul 21, 2008
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Poverty campaigner Sheelagh Cooper has called for a national conversation on wage guidelines to help the Island's poorest people out of their "despair".
Mrs. Cooper said Government's long-awaited Low Income Thresholds study was a step in the right di...
DATE: Jul 21, 2008
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As the world celebrated Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday yesterday, Bermuda recognised the efforts of some of its own local heroes who fought against the odds for social justice.
Glenn Fubler — Imagine 2009 co-chair and a major player in Bermuda's anti...
DATE: Jul 19, 2008
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Angry union bosses vowed to "give Government war" and called for the whole of Cabinet to resign over the outsourcing of Bermudian jobs.
Ed Ball and Armell Thomas said a claim that Bermudians kicked out of the New York tourism office were finding jobs...
DATE: Jul 18, 2008
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