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Government is today expected to seek approval on overspendings on the hospital, health insurance, pensions and interest on debt throughout 2010-11.
The Supplementary Estimate for the fiscal year is a key item on the agenda for today’s House of Assemb...
DATE: Mar 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
MPs reignited their fight over the Corporation of Hamilton last night as they approved legislation allowing Government to collect wharfage fees formerly levied by the municipality.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards said he was struggling to see wh...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Shadow Justice Minister Trevor Moniz yesterday asked what action has been taken to avoid a repeat of the Facebook Fugitive who escaped from prison officers.
Mr Moniz called for the results of the investigation into the Alvone Maybury incident to be m...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda Democratic Alliance MP Mark Pettingill clashed with Attorney General Michael Scott as MPs rowed over sweeping cuts to the Justice budget.
Mr Pettingill complained it was illogical for funding on rehabilitation projects to go down while recidi...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Government overspent by $15 million on King Edward VII Memorial Hospital during the current fiscal year.
The House of Assembly will now be asked to approve that figure, as well as an extra $2.25 million spending on health insurance within the Ministr...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Kevin Grant is this week replacing Armell Thomas as Bermuda Public Services Union president.
Mr Thomas yesterday revealed he is stepping down after six years in which he frequently clashed with Government and helped orchestrate one of the most signif...
DATE: Mar 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons asked what’s happened to Bermuda’s Blueprint for Education as he accused Government of making vague promises on reform.
Last April, then Education Minister Elvin James released a five-year plan to improve publi...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Education Ministry cash was spent on programmes that weren’t supposed to receive it as staff abused the Government grants system, Minister Dame Jennifer Smith said yesterday.
Dame Jennifer pledged to tighten up controls as she explained how Education...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
United Bermuda Party MP John Barritt suggested Government is adding more bureaucracy with the newly named Ministry of Government Estates and Information Services.
Minister Neletha Butterfield is in charge of the Ministry, formerly called Public Infor...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Big Al Harris and Celeste Spencer Robinson were yesterday inducted into the Bermuda Music Hall of Fame.
The pair, renowned calypsonians of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, were saluted at a ceremony at Shine Hayward’s Music Studio, attended by Public Informat...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
