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Future seniors face abject poverty unless Santa Claus bails them out because there’s so little in Bermuda’s pensions pot, according to economist Robert Stewart.
Mr Stewart, a fierce critic of Government’s handling of pensions, says new figures reveal...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox, Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess and Economy Minister Kim Wilson are leading a delegation to Washington, DC.
Jobs, reinsurance, border control, agriculture, energy and the environment are among the issues up for discussion as Ms Cox ...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Union boss Glenn Simmons yesterday denied claims bus drivers have issued a 21-day strike notice.
Bus Operators and Allied Workers president Mr Simmons said Bermuda Industrial Union had written a letter listing concerns to the Ministry of Transport fo...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox, Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess and Government Senate leader Kim Wilson are today leading a Ministerial delegation to Washington, DC.
Government says meetings have been set up with high level officials in President Barack Obama’s ad...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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John Evans, the husband of former Progressive Labour Party leader Dame Lois Browne-Evans, died late on Thursday evening.
Premier Paula Cox led tributes in the House of Assembly on Friday, where Mr Evans was described as the silent rock on which one o...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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Former United Bermuda Party MP Darius Tucker yesterday completed his journey across the floor to the Progressive Labour Party, telling The Royal Gazette: “It’s not a matter of ideology.”
The Hamilton South MP said what’s in his heart is more importan...
DATE: Jun 12, 2011
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Heavier trucks will be allowed on Bermuda’s roads under legislation which passed through the House of Assembly yesterday.
The maximum weight of fully loaded fuel tankers will go up 50 percent, from 22,000 pounds to 33,000 pounds, as part of the Motor...
DATE: Jun 11, 2011
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Former United Bermuda Party MP Darius Tucker has this morning joined the Progressive Labour Party.
Mr Tucker announced the move in a personal explanation to the House of Assembly saying he wants to “reflect the times” and acknowledge the need for the...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011
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Progressive Labour Party Senator LaVerne Furbert is said to be challenging her cousin Wayne Furbert for his House of Assembly seat in Hamilton West.
The pair are locked in a three-way battle with businessman Charles Clarke in Constituency Six as the ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011
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Bermuda will be borrowing ideas from anti-gang initiatives in the United States as authorities try to get to grips with the Island's spiralling gun violence.
Methods championed by the Interagency Anti-Gang Task Force yesterday included Brooklyn's Sav...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011
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