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We not only want to woo the international businesses and their financiers here, but we also want them to be encouraged to stay. Let us look at making our fees and rents more competitive so that the cost of doing business here, compares favourably wit...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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Once again, the cost of owning a vehicle is increasing through vehicle licence and other fees. This is a nuisance tax and the increase will only bring the Government $900,000 in a budget of $385 million, only 0.30 percent. Although, the economy is st...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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the future, Shadow Finance Minister Mr. Eugene Cox charged yesterday.
"Mr. Mrs. and Ms Average Bermuda will bear the heaviest tax burdens,'' he told MPs.
"It was not enough that they were the ones who bore the brunt of the recession. Now they are bei...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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group looking into Independence.
The National Liberal Party made the claim, adding in its experience Lord Waddington was not impartial.
This did not bode well for the Commission of Inquiry into Independence, the party declared.
In a written statement...
DATE: Feb 21, 1994
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before a referendum is held, says the new UBP chairman.
"I do not think the party will take a position on Independence,'' Mr. Gary Pitman told The Royal Gazette .
"It would be very difficult for the party to take a position on it when you've got oppo...
DATE: Feb 21, 1994
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Latest weekly arrival figures show a dramatic 23.3 percent drop.
Just 3,447 holidaymakers came here between February 7 and 13, compared to 4,492 for the same week last year.
Last month hoteliers had voiced hope business would hot up because of the Ar...
DATE: Feb 19, 1994
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back for restoring teachers' pay for after-school activities.
Coalition head Mrs. Sheelagh Cooper said the extra-curricular programme had proved a major self-esteem booster among youngsters. And she believed it was a contributing factor in Bermudians...
DATE: Feb 18, 1994
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But his Portuguese listeners felt otherwise -- and gave the Education Minister short shrift.
It was belittling for the Minister to jokingly call small Portuguese men "pocket manuals'', they fumed.
Now Dr. Terceira -- himself of Portuguese descent -- ...
DATE: Feb 17, 1994
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afterschool activities and sabbaticals had been reinstated.
The news meant an end to a month-long work-to-rule by teachers.
Angered by the pay cut, teachers had refused to supervise extra-curricular activities since school went back in January.
Bermu...
DATE: Feb 16, 1994
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morning but not without cracks appearing in the ranks of the Cabinet.
Senior Ministers the Hon. C.V. (Jim) Woolridge and the Hon. Clarence Terceira and former Minister Ann Cartwright Decouto spoke against the Independence Referendum Act.
But after 17...
DATE: Feb 16, 1994
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