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Some class four insurance companies will have to pay $230,000 each under new legislation designed to cover the costs of raising supervisory standards.
Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday said the Insurance Companies (Special Fees) Act — which introd...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Drivers who don't pay their parking fines will be refused licences at TCD under a modernised ticketing system.
Premier Ewart Brown yesterday said people clock up to $400,000 in unpaid fines every year partly because of a process relying too heavily o...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Former United Bermuda Party leader Grant Gibbons yesterday accused Finance Minister Paula Cox of "absolute silence" over the recent blocking of the Auditor General. Dr. Gibbons said he asked a string of questions relating to Heather Jacobs Matthews' ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown, Minister Zane DeSilva and Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling finally met yesterday — but their talks over the future of the Corporations couldn't have gone much worse.
Few common objectives were identified, according to Cabinet, whic...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Boundary changes which could jeopardise several MPs' seats in the House of Assembly are set to be debated this week.
A redrawn electoral map — thought to give Government MPs Patrice Minors, Dale Butler and Zane DeSilva less safe constituencies — was ...
DATE: Jul 19, 2010
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An article in yesterday's Royal Gazette incorrectly stated a bill stopping the Corporations from levying wharfage and ports due would remove $8 million a year from the Corporation of Hamilton's profits. It should have stated this would remove $7.5 mi...
DATE: Jul 17, 2010
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A bill leading to "death by financial strangulation" for the Corporation of Hamilton could be tabled today after winning approval at a hot-tempered Progressive Labour Party caucus meeting.
The legislation was passed at Wednesday night's Alaska Hall m...
DATE: Jul 16, 2010
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Even the biggest doubters may now start to believe Premier Ewart Brown’s House of Assembly days are coming to an end as the Progressive Labour Party launched its hunt for a local candidate to replace him.
Hot on the heels of the announcement of a far...
DATE: Jul 16, 2010
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MPs are today set to approve legislation allowing vulnerable witnesses to be given new identities — but the United Bermuda Party is sceptical it will work.
People could very easily be tracked down on the small islands they'll be sent to hide under th...
DATE: Jul 16, 2010
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Nearly a third of people are financially worse off than they were last year, according to a new poll.
More whites than blacks say they've been hit in the pocket over the past 12 months, as the whole population continues to have little faith in the di...
DATE: Jul 15, 2010
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