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Union boss Armell Thomas yesterday said the Progressive Labour Party has been “living off the coat-tails” of the United Bermuda Party Government’s financial prudence.
Mr Thomas said Government needs to identify new ways of increasing revenue and crea...
DATE: Feb 24, 2011
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Tim Smith
Opposition merger talks have hit a brick wall with the two sides arguing over the role of the United Bermuda Party’s top level executives.
The UBP, which has nine MPs to the Bermuda Democratic Alliance’s three, is said to want greater representation ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2011
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Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox is being advised to call a summer election, but the Progressive Labour Party is said to be a long way from being ready for one.
Some senior PLP figures want the Premier to cash in on a feel-good factor from her Budget which won supp...
DATE: Feb 23, 2011
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Tim Smith
One in four people believe Government can turn around Bermuda’s economic woes.
Twenty-five percent of voters in a new poll by Mindmaps said they were confident in Government’s ability to develop policies to improve the economy.
Thirty-three percent s...
DATE: Feb 23, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox's payroll tax reversal was an admission she got it wrong with last year's increase, Bermuda Democratic Alliance finance spokesman Michael Fahy said yesterday.
Mr Fahy accused the Finance Minister of a U-turn by dropping payroll from...
DATE: Feb 22, 2011
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Budget
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Tim Smith
Both Opposition parties yesterday accused Premier Paula Cox of using external factors as an excuse for her own shortcomings and failing to get to grips with Bermuda’s economic crisis.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards said Ms Cox had missed a grea...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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Budget
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Tim Smith
Programmes to help at-risk young people and small businesses were two victims of Premier Paula Cox’s cost-cutting Budget yesterday.
The Mirrors programme repeatedly heralded for turning around the lives of young men and women since its launch four ye...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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Budget
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Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox yesterday cut payroll tax, hoping to stimulate the economy and lead Bermuda into recovery from recession.
Reversing the unpopular two percentage point rise she imposed last year so payroll tax returns to 14 percent Ms Cox says she’s...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess yesterday said the police/court building would have a maximum three percent cost overrun and should have full occupancy next month.
But Shadow Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said that takes the total cost of th...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan yesterday urged Premier Paula Cox to take his party's advice as she prepares to deliver her first Budget as leader of the Country.
Mr Swan said the Island would be in much better shape if Government had heeded the...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
