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One Bermuda Alliance MP Cole Simons has questioned the need for an in-house, residential Job Corps initiative in a small country like Bermuda.
Economy Minister Patrice Minors this week announced Harmony Club in Paget as the site of the Government ini...
DATE: Nov 08, 2012
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Harmony Club has been chosen as the site for Government’s Job Corps initiative, and capital development costs are estimated at $6 million, Economy Minister Patrice Minors reported yesterday.
Operating costs of the planned residential programme are an...
DATE: Nov 07, 2012
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Four hotel workers, all Bermudian, have been made redundant at one of the Island's leading hotels.
The cuts at Rosewood Tucker's Point were ascribed by a spokeswoman to “restructuring”.
The East End hotel, which employs 238 people, is understood by T...
DATE: Oct 30, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Trade unionists and the 3,800 members of the Bermuda Public Services Union are gearing up for a week of anniversary celebrations to mark 60 years on Bermuda’s labour front.
A special morning worship service will launch the week of events on Sunday at...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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Young unemployed people are trying to give up lives of crime but struggling with the skills they need to succeed in the workplace, according to youth advocate Carlton Simmons.
Mr Simmons was responding yesterday to news from the Labour Force Survey t...
DATE: Oct 19, 2012
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Black Bermudians with the same academic qualifications as their white counterparts are still earning significantly less, according to Census statistics.
Median annual income for black residents holding a bachelor’s degree was $80,640 in 2010 — compar...
DATE: Oct 17, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A doctor who was fired after just three weeks on the job is demanding reinstatement, compensation and an apology, claiming that he was wrongfully dismissed and that the Bermuda Hospitals Board violated his employment contract, its own policy and his ...
DATE: Oct 13, 2012
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One of four former Guantánamo Bay detainees controversially resettled in Bermuda is desperately seeking work as the men struggle with the high cost of living on the Island.
Lawyer Richard Horseman, who represents the four Uighurs brought to Bermuda i...
DATE: Oct 02, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The training overseas of 17 Bermudian men as drywall mechanics was announced by Economy Minister Patrice Minors, as “an initiative deserving of public recognition”.
Ms Minors said Government had “come under increasing criticism of late from some sect...
DATE: Sep 28, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Just two years ago, holding down two jobs as an independent single mother was enough for Kimalice Mae Williams and her daughter to get by. That changed on February 11, 2010 when she, like many others, were told their jobs were being made redundant.
A...
DATE: Sep 20, 2012
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