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The jury in a fraud trial spent most of yesterday observing paperwork showing how a construction firm was paid after allegedly renovating a private home with hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars.
Construction boss John White was repeatedly ask...
DATE: Mar 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Industrial action has ended at Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club after the dismissal of a staff member was sent to arbitration.
Colleagues protested outside the club on Wednesday and Thursday last week, following the termination of food and beverag...
DATE: Mar 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A construction boss told a court he was arrested and accused of fraud after being hired by Works and Engineering boss Kyril Burrows to build a house.
John White said Mr Burrows told him the three-storey property his firm was erecting at Turkey Hill i...
DATE: Mar 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda Union of Teachers general secretary Mike Charles has scotched claims children are in danger because of underqualified Physical Education teachers.
Mr Charles said Opposition MP Louise Jackson had tarred the name of all PE teachers by suggesti...
DATE: Mar 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda College is hosting a youth summit to show young men why it’s important they persevere with further education.
Organisers say they want to alter a false perception that it’s not worth studying beyond the age of 16, as enrolment figures have pl...
DATE: Mar 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Union boss Kevin Grant has called for Government to set a better example than spending $54,000 taxpayers’ money on a Jeep Patriot with Bose surround sound system for a road sweeping manager.
The Bermuda Public Services Union president says his member...
DATE: Mar 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Staff walked off the job at Riddell’s Bay Golf and Country Club in protest at the dismissal of a colleague.
About ten employees demonstrated outside the club yesterday, for the second day in a row, carrying placards such as “Workers demand respect” a...
DATE: Mar 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Last year’s police pay award caused the Ministry of Labour, Home Affairs and Housing to overspend by $2.3 million, according to supplementary estimates tabled in the House of Assembly.
Government gave officers a retroactive 1.8 percent pay increase o...
DATE: Mar 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda Sloop Foundation will receive a grant of $200,500 to continue providing voyages to middle school students, Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith announced yesterday.
The Ministry will hand out a total of $430,310 in grants to external bodies...
DATE: Mar 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda Sloop Foundation will receive a grant of $200,500 to continue providing voyages to middle school students, Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith revealed this morning.
That figure, unchanged from 2011/12, represents nearly half the total sum...
DATE: Mar 07, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
