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Job creation and training are key priorities as Government bids to revitalise the economy, Premier Paula Cox said yesterday.
The Premier and Economy Minister Patrice Minors both gave updates on a number of job-creating programmes and hinted at more t...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith hinted more preschools could switch locations as she aims to save cash without shedding jobs.
The Education Ministry received a budget of $134 million for 2012/13, up by five percent on the $128 million it was i...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The ferry service between Rockaway and Hamilton will be reduced this summer, Transport Minister Derrick Burgess announced yesterday.
Five daily trips will take place instead of eight, said the Minister, while the supplementary minibus service to Rock...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Muslims and Anglicans are putting on a faith-based symposium in an effort to promote social peace.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Bermuda is organising the event in conjunction with the Anglican Church and Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda at the ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox says the National Budget of $1.08 billion and associated economic stimulus measures should create a bridge of stability to an anticipated return to economic growth in 2013.
Government added $98 million to its de...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Buildings manager Kyril Burrows quit the Works and Engineering Ministry amid concerns over his irregular purchase of a 58-inch plasma screen television, high-ranking civil servant Robert Horton told a court yesterday.
Mr Horton, former Permanent Secr...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A civil servant and his wife stole hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund their luxurious lifestyle, a prosecutor alleged yesterday.
Kyril Burrows, a former buildings manager in Works and Engineering, is accused of dishonestly submitting i...
DATE: Feb 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Growing complaints about landlords and tenants contributed to an increased workload for the Department of Consumer Affairs in 2011, Economy Minister Patrice Minors has revealed.
Mrs Minors said 657 general complaints were recorded throughout the year...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A fraud trial was delayed again yesterday following more difficulties selecting a jury.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons adjourned the case, in which Kyril Burrows and Delcina Bean-Burrows are accused of defrauding Government of more than $553,000 b...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Government raked in more than $1.3 million issuing land licences to under a law which is set to be reversed.
The National Security Ministry yesterday said 955 licences were obtained between June 2007 and the end of 2011 as part of the Bermuda Immigr...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
