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Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday raised payroll tax to 16 percent — up from 14 percent — as she attempted to get to grips with the economic crisis with a $1.2 billion Budget.
Critics said the working poor are being unfairly punished for Governmen...
DATE: Feb 27, 2010
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Finance Minister Paula Cox last night pledged a fair and sensitive Budget — but warned not everybody will get what they're hoping for.
"The better policies are those where no one gets all that they might wish," Ms Cox told The Royal Gazette on the ev...
DATE: Feb 26, 2010
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Newly elected Bermuda Democratic Alliance leader Craig Cannonier issued a rallying cry for Bermudians to "wake up" and stop the Island falling into a volcano of social problems.
Mr. Cannonier stormed to a 157-38 victory over Myron Piper amid cheers a...
DATE: Feb 22, 2010
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Two men who've never sat in the House of Assembly will go head to head for the leadership of the Bermuda Democratic Alliance on Saturday.
Esso gas station dealer Craig Cannonier will take on entrepreneur Myron Piper for the BDA's top spot after all t...
DATE: Feb 16, 2010
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Three Government ministries hired 130 consultants between them in less than two years.
The Ministry of Finance alone used 66 consultants from May 1, 2008 to January 31 this year, according to figures released in Parliament on Friday; the Ministry of ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2010
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More than 400 people will be employed to help Government carry out the 2010 census, Premier Ewart Brown revealed yesterday.
Dr. Brown said this year's census will ask residents more questions than ever before in an attempt to build a comprehensive da...
DATE: Feb 13, 2010
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More than 20 young Progressive Labour Party members are said to be ready to break the party old guard's stranglehold and emerge as candidates at the next General Election.
One potential new face — 28-year-old party organiser Makai Dickerson — yesterd...
DATE: Feb 11, 2010
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He's lived in a tent for the past three years, but Andrew Laws isn't so worried about himself — he's more concerned about the many young men following the same path of destruction he's been down.
A recovering drug addict, Mr. Laws says he's making th...
DATE: Feb 03, 2010
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The threat of leadership challenges which hung over his head for so long may have finally disappeared for good, but it's far from plain sailing for Premier Ewart Brown as he enters his final few months as Bermuda's leader.
Dr. Brown is now facing a k...
DATE: Jan 29, 2010
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Government should encourage companies to take on out-of-work young men — and help fund their wages and development, according to Hamilton West MP Wayne Furbert.
Mr. Furbert says much of the gang trouble plaguing the Island in recent months is due to ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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