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Ten percent of Bermudians entering the job market were unemployed in 2000, compared to a three percent unemployment rate overall, the Department of Statistics? Labour Force Trends report has shown.
And within that ten percent, there is a large dispar...
DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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The number of expatriate workers and the length of their stay on the Island has increased over the last decade.
In the May, 2004 report on labour trends based on the 1991 and 2000 Census, the Department revealed there has been a steady growth in the ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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Bermuda?s labour force grew by eight percent between 1991 and 2000, but the number of expatriates jumped up by ten percent, the latest Government figures show.
The decline of tourism and growth of international business meant hospitality jobs dropped...
DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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Women are "grossly under-represented" in politics in Bermuda, Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield was due to tell parliamentarians at a conference in Grenada today.
According to prepared remarks for a regional session of the Commonwealth Parliam...
DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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Thirteen of Bermuda?s 17 quangos should retain their status while others should be merged, a report from the Cabinet?s Central Policy Unit has recommended.
The report says the West End Development Company (Wedco) should combine with Bermuda Land Deve...
DATE: Jul 26, 2004
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Truancy has dropped over six percent since 1999 thanks to the return of attendance officers to the school system, Education Minister told the House on Friday.
But Mr. Lister said that if attendance rates in senior school were to reach an optimum 94 ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2004
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The public fear crime is getting worse despite most people feeling safe in their own neighbourhoods, a survey has revealed. The public feel crime has increased over the past five years and will continue to do so.
One in four have been victim of crime...
DATE: Jul 26, 2004
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Government MPs turned on the media on Friday, with a mixed bag of accusations of ulterior motives, incompetence and turning a blind eye to positive stories.
The most serious accusation came from ruling party backbencher who said that was ?evil? and, ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2004
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John Jefferis, the man whose award of the controversial lease at Government-owned Stonington Beach Hotel was branded unfair by the Auditor General, secretly funded a political consultant to work for the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) at the 1998 elec...
DATE: Jul 23, 2004
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The new World Heritage Visitors Centre on Penno's Wharf in St. George's will be a major educational centre for local students.
The St. George's Foundation is working with the Ministry of Education to bring students to the centre, which will be constr...
DATE: Jul 23, 2004
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