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The Progressive Labour Party's record on good governance will come under the spotlight in a House of Assembly debate today.
Premier Paula Cox will open discussion on the Good Governance Act, which she says will make financial abuse a thing of the pas...
DATE: Jun 15, 2012
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Tim Smith
Career diplomat and former SWAT team member Robert Settje is the new United States Consul General to Bermuda.
Mr Settje, who has a long history of service with the US Foreign Service in posts including Afghanistan, the Caribbean and Europe, replaces ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2012
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Neglected areas of town will not be left behind as tourism chiefs try to turn Hamilton into an iconic modern city, Mayor Graeme Outerbridge said yesterday.
Mr Outerbridge will push for North East Hamilton to feature prominently in a central destinati...
DATE: Jun 13, 2012
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Residents have been hit by another electricity bill hike — meaning the average family is now paying 18 percent more than four years ago.
The fuel adjustment rate has increased from 17.5 cents to 19.5 cents per kilowatt hour, raising the bill for a fa...
DATE: Jun 13, 2012
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Bermuda’s unpolished jewels are the key to turning tourism into a billion dollar industry, Tourism Board member Vince Ingham claimed last night.
Beauty spots such as St David’s already contain untapped resources which could attract vast numbers of vi...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
He may now be blind in one eye, but Governor George Fergusson hasn’t lost sight of the things that really matter as he settles into life in Bermuda.
Joking he would have preferred to view his new Island home with two eyes rather than one, he told The...
DATE: Jun 11, 2012
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Four destination hubs on the Island, and a fifth offshore, will be set up as part of an effort to reinvent Bermuda’s tourism industry.
St George’s and St David’s, the City of Hamilton, South Shore and Dockyard will all receive special focus under the...
DATE: Jun 09, 2012
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Speaker Stanley Lowe yesterday announced no sanctions will be taken against Progressive Labour Party MP Derrick Burgess following his altercation with Estates Minister Michael Scott.
In a statement to the House of Assembly, Mr Lowe expressed concern ...
DATE: Jun 09, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
More than 250 men visited Elliott Primary to take part in an initiative helping children learn to read.
Cabinet Ministers Zane DeSilva, Glenn Blakeney and Michael Weeks, and Government MP Dale Butler, were among those who called at the school for the...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Long-serving MP Cole Simons was yesterday unveiled as the One Bermuda Alliance’s general election candidate for Smith’s South.
Mr Simons, who has represented the constituency for the Opposition since 1998, told the media his party has the values to b...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith