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Senators passed a string of bills including the creation of an Internal Audit Department for Government and cruise ship cabin tax waiver.
The Internal Audit Act 2010 will set up a new Internal Audit Department to provide an overview of the managing a...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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Horrible weather stranded a group of Bermuda High School students and their chaperones in Philadelphia for a few days.
Twenty-four girls and four chaperones were due to fly home Saturday morning after a weeklong ski trip in Vermont. However hurricane...
DATE: Feb 16, 2010
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History of the Dockyard Area
— The area was established when Britain was defeated in the US War of Independence and left without an operational base between Halifax, Nova Scotia and the West Indies.
— To do so the Royal Navy purchased 200 acres on I...
DATE: Feb 15, 2010
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Thousands of convicts worked on it. At one time it provided 15 percent of all income in Bermuda and it was a symbol of British power.
Now 200 years since British sailors moved into the Royal Naval Dockyard and it became a strategic port to withstand ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2010
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A bill improving oversight of Government policies and programmes was finally passed in the House of Assembly yesterday, two months after it had to be deferred following complaints.
Premier Ewart Brown made a number of amendments to the Internal Audit...
DATE: Feb 06, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown will return to the House of Assembly today hoping to convince his critics to pass two bills they’ve complained about in the past.
One of them — a bill to waive cabin tax on cruise ships — is understood to have previously come unde...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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Opposition to Independence reached a new height after the Queen's visit to the Island last November.
Seventy-four percent of people now do not want to break ties with the UK, according to a Research.bm survey carried out in early January, up from 66 ...
DATE: Jan 27, 2010
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While Bermuda’s crime soars the bickering over who has operational control over Policing has been a constant theme throughout 2009. Recently Public Safety Minister David Burch appeared to back down from his call for control but it is not known if the...
DATE: Dec 29, 2009
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The Acting Leader of the Opposition says the Premier's handling of the Uighurs has only undermined Bermuda's ability to conduct its own affairs.
United Bermuda Party MP Trevor Moniz said Ewart Brown's decision to bring the four Guantánamo Bay detaine...
DATE: Dec 22, 2009
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Public Safety Minister David Burch yesterday backed down from his demand for control of the Police service.
"I do not give a monkey's who is in charge of operational control of the Police," said the Minister in a heartfelt Senate speech hours after l...
DATE: Dec 17, 2009
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