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Shadow Attorney General Trevor Moniz says the Parole Board needs to toughen up after nine inmates had to be recalled when they breached their conditions.
According to the Parole Board annual report for 2009, released on Friday by Attorney General Mic...
DATE: Dec 06, 2010
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Both Opposition parties yesterday demanded to know when the police/court building will be completed and how much it’s going to cost.
Government has not given a progress report since last summer, when Works Minister Derrick Burgess announced it would ...
DATE: Dec 03, 2010
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Shadow Tourism Minister Cole Simons yesterday called for Government to plough emergency cash into promoting Bermuda ahead of a predicted grim winter.
Mr Simons said industry sources believe the next few months will be the worst in living memory and B...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Economist Robert Stewart says proposed pension increases for retired public sector workers, MPs and senators simply leave the average senior even further behind.
The average benefit for retired civil servants, police, firemen and teachers will go up ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Retired public sector workers in Bermuda will get a four percent pension increase under a new order tabled by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox.
The rise which will be backdated to this July and is thought to cover more than 1,900 people applies...
DATE: Nov 30, 2010
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Opposition MP Grant Gibbons was denied in his attempts to squeeze information about a proposed national health plan out of Health Minister Zane DeSilva.
In a Ministerial Statement on Friday, Mr DeSilva told the House of Assembly the recent Health Fin...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Race adviser Rolfe Commissiong has upset Progressive Labour Party MPs by aggressively targeting sitting MP Ashfield DeVent in Pembroke South East.
Mr Commissiong is said to have yelled across Cabinet grounds at the end of the Throne Speech earlier th...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Bermuda's laws are powerless to shut down home day care providers even when they're putting very young children in an unsafe environment.
MPs will today debate the Children Amendment Act, which corrects a flaw in the existing Children Act by clarifyi...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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Shadow Attorney General Trevor Moniz says his possible election opponent Jonathan Smith is "morally wrong" to sit on the Public Service Commission while harbouring political ambitions.
Mr Smith was appointed to the PSC — the body which advises the Go...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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The Senate sits for the first time this parliamentary session today — with three new Senators and one new leader.
Former Opposition leader Michael Dunkley will sit among the United Bermuda Party ranks despite speculation over his future following his...
DATE: Nov 24, 2010
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