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Cabinet Minister Neletha Butterfield threatened to boycott an AME Church event after she and Acting Premier Derrick Burgess were asked to sit in the second row for a Mount Zion service.
Ms Butterfield and the Deputy Premier were deeply upset to be di...
DATE: Apr 29, 2011
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Tim Smith
Fuel prices have reached a new high, with gas up to $2.15 per litre a rise of 15 percent since April 2010.
The United Bermuda Party yesterday called for Government to reverse its recent cuts in ferries and buses so people can save money using public ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2011
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The United Bermuda Party’s communications consultant has quit after more than four years’ service.
It’s understood Don Grearson’s departure is connected to the official Opposition’s fund-raising difficulties; he terminated his contract as negotiation...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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About 600 civil servants yesterday marched on Cabinet calling for more help for families struggling during the recession.
Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU) demanded Government does all it can to introduce a price freeze on essential services as pa...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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Bermuda Tourism Board has launched a blog to find out how people think tourism can be improved.
The ‘Sounding Board’ asks three questions:
l what are the most important tourism issues?
l what do you think are the strengths of Bermuda as a destination...
DATE: Apr 26, 2011
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Tim Smith
Several hundred civil servants marched on Cabinet this morning calling for Government to do more to help families struggling during the recession.
The Bermuda Public Services Union demonstration went ahead despite Premier Paula Cox requesting it be p...
DATE: Apr 26, 2011
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An American visitor was hit on the head with a blunt object in an attempted robbery in Par-La-Ville Park on Saturday.
Police say the the 48-year-old victim and his friend were accosted by a local man near the public restroom facilities in Queen Stree...
DATE: Apr 25, 2011
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Shadow National Security Minister Michael Dunkley accused Government of being slow off the mark after Premier Paula Cox confirmed Cabinet is considering gang legislation.
In her first televised address to the nation as Premier on Thursday night, Ms C...
DATE: Apr 25, 2011
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Tim Smith
Officers have committed an offence by failing to file accounts for Bermuda Industrial Union, according to Bermuda Democratic Alliance chairman Michael Fahy.
Mr Fahy says union members have told him they feel let down by officers who are continuing to...
DATE: Apr 25, 2011
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Seventy percent of people are opposed to Independence, according to the latest poll from Mindmaps.
That represents a slight dip from 73 percent in the previous poll in January, with the number in favour increasing from 14 percent to 16 percent. Fourt...
DATE: Apr 25, 2011
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