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Bermuda’s reliance on fossil fuels is largely to blame for a huge hike in household electricity bills, according to environmentalists BEST.
The average family’s monthly Belco bill has jumped from $185 to $312 in the space of eight years, an increase ...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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The number of people on financial assistance has nearly doubled in the past seven years, and the amount they’re receiving has dramatically increased.
Government figures show 1,375 people are claiming assistance, up from 1,350 last year, and a rise of...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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When your monthly wages are $900 and your monthly rent is $900, to say you haven’t got much money to play with is a bit of an understatement.
That’s the problem currently faced by Miss X, a single mother who often has to go without food herself so he...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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Families campaigner Martha Dismont yesterday urged grocers to reduce their prices amid fears many more people are dropping below the poverty line.
Ms Dismont claimed the average single parent with one child now has to spend $7,000 per year on basic f...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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Fifty dollars didn’t exactly go a long way in Bermuda’s supermarkets ten years ago. It goes a much shorter distance today.
The Royal Gazette embarked on a food shopping trip to see what you could get for $50 using 2002 prices, and repeated the task u...
DATE: Apr 16, 2012
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Soaring numbers of families and seniors are finding it impossible to cope with rocketing food prices, charities warned yesterday.
Age Concern called for tax breaks for the elderly after noting the cost of staple items such as bread, potatoes and rice...
DATE: Apr 16, 2012
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The cash many fork out on a couple of rounds of drinks in a Front Street bar is all ‘Mr A’ can afford for his weekly groceries.
The 89-year-old former Government employee has between $50 and $70 left for food and household essentials once rent and al...
DATE: Apr 16, 2012
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One Bermuda Alliance National Security advisor Jeff Baron met with former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband at a Harvard University event.
Mr Miliband was part of a panel discussion on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation at the uni...
DATE: Apr 11, 2012
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Anyone who witnessed Good Friday’s machete fight next to Southampton Rangers cricket club is urged to get in touch with police.
A man remains in hospital following the brawl, involving eight people, yards from where children played on a bouncy castle...
DATE: Apr 10, 2012
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Air passengers on the London-Bermuda route face major hold-ups over the next two days.
Last night’s 8.05pm plane to London was hit by a 12-hour delay, with its take-off time put back to 8.30am today, according to the British Airways website.
That mea...
DATE: Apr 09, 2012
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