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The Christmas Boat Parade returns this year with $300 Lindo’s vouchers up for grabs for early entrants.
Sponsor Royal Bermuda Yacht Club is encouraging the community to take part in the event on Saturday, December 10, which is now only being held eve...
DATE: Oct 17, 2011
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The One Bermuda Alliance repeated its call for Government to get accurate unemployment figures, claiming more are out of work than Census results suggest.
Last Friday, Premier Paula Cox announced the Island’s unemployment rate was six percent at the ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2011
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Bermuda’s average age leaped from 37 to 41 in a ten-year spell, according to Census figures released yesterday.
Researchers noted the growing burden on the working population to support elderly people, with the Island’s number of seniors climbing fro...
DATE: Oct 15, 2011
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Bermudians make up the same proportion of the population as they did in 2000, Census results show.
In 2010, there were 50,533 Bermudians and 13,513 non-Bermudians, indicating 79 percent of the Island were Bermudians and 21 percent were non-Bermudians...
DATE: Oct 15, 2011
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Progressive Labour Party insiders expect more twists and turns over candidate selection even after branch elections have concluded at the end of next week.
Hard-fought battles are taking place in at least 14 candidate selection meetings across the Co...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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Nearly 90 percent of Devonshire South Central residents polled by former MP John Barritt supported a merger between the United Bermuda Party and Bermuda Democratic Alliance.
Mr Barritt said his survey of 100 registered Constituency 12 voters helped h...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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Tim Smith
The One Bermuda Alliance is ahead of the Progressive Labour Party in the latest poll after gaining a surge of voters in its first few months of existence.
Thirty-eight percent of people said they would vote OBA in a general election, with 32 percent ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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A Special Investigations team is being set up at the Auditor General’s office to speed up reports into public projects, including those carried out under former Premier Ewart Brown.
Auditor General Heather Matthews also hopes she will get more power ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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Minister Neletha Butterfield and Senator David Burt are set to go head-to-head in a rematch after Thursday night’s controversial candidates selection meeting in Pembroke West Central, according to sources.
The pair’s contest at West Pembroke Primary ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2011
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Tim Smith
Lawyer Charles Richardson said Government has suffered serious trust issues as he claimed Bermuda’s political landscape is in bad need of a manicure.
Mr Richardson had previously suggested he would run for the Progressive Labour Party in Hamilton Sou...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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