114 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Budget"
By Owain Johnston-Barnes and Jonathan Bell
MPs approved more than $15 million in additional overspends from the 2010/11 financial year on Friday.
Government passed two previous supplementary estimates for the year last March, but the House of Assembl...
DATE: Mar 12, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
*AYO MIGHT CLARIFY THE BIT IN BOLD AT THE END. IF NOT IT’S GOOD TO GO.
This is a continuation of the report on the Education Ministry budget debate in the House of Assembly on Wednesday evening. The first part of the debate was reported in yesterda...
DATE: Mar 09, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
Last year’s police pay award caused the Ministry of Labour, Home Affairs and Housing to overspend by $2.3 million, according to supplementary estimates tabled in the House of Assembly.
Government gave officers a retroactive 1.8 percent pay increase o...
DATE: Mar 09, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Continued from Page 4
Encouraging private industry to “step up too”, Mr Roban said Government had been a stimulator and a generator, not a “job creator”.
Over the past four years, he said, surpluses had not materialised, but “Government has still had...
DATE: Mar 05, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
Environment Minister Marc Bean criticised the One Bermuda Alliance for suggesting things in the Reply to the Budget that Government is already doing.
His speech was punctuated by frequent heckles from Government MP Glenn Blakeney of “copycat politics...
DATE: Mar 05, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Delivering the United Bermuda Party’s Reply to the Budget, the party’s finance spokesman Charles Swan noted that he and Kim Swan are the only two remaining MPs elected under the UBP banner.
“We truly know the meaning of doing more with less as we con...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
Government spent nearly $52 million more than it expected last year, with hospital subsidies costing $18 million more than originally budgeted.
A supplementary estimate tabled in the House of Assembly showed revealed costs for the financial year 2011...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s seniors gained little in Premier Paula Cox’s Budget for the coming fiscal year.
So believes former Bermuda Council on Ageing head Marian Sherratt.
She said she agreed with the rollback announced by the Premier on land tax and vehicle licenc...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Opposition yesterday renewed its call for an independent standards board for schools, as it accused Government of squandering the chance to radically improve public education.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards, in his reply to the Budget, said...
DATE: Mar 02, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Families Minister Glenn Blakeney last night assured a town-hall meeting that abuse of the Financial Assistance system rarely occurs.
And Premier Paula Cox has urged Bermudians to take advantage of job training opportunities being provided by her admi...
DATE: Feb 29, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
