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A Hansard system of reporting and a Parliamentary website are to go live this year, as Government tries to improve public access to information.
Minister without Portfolio Zane DeSilva announced the moves in the House of Assembly as he outlined the 2...
DATE: Mar 12, 2010
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In its survey for Save Our City, set up to stop the abolition of the Corporation of Hamilton, Research.bm found that people in Bermuda were overwhelmingly against any move to get rid of the organisation. Here are some of the comments from those surve...
DATE: Mar 11, 2010
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Plans to let people dip into their private pension funds will be discussed today as Paula Cox's Budget looks set for more contentious debate in the House of Assembly.
Bermudians who meet certain criteria for hardship will have access to their pension...
DATE: Mar 10, 2010
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A British MP wants Bermuda to have a representative in the British parliament and even the European parliament.
Andrew Mackinlay, who has a long-standing interest in the 17 Overseas Territories, claims they are "denied their democratic rights" and ig...
DATE: Feb 26, 2010
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The Premier's race relations consultant Rolfe Commissiong has been paid $170,000.
And Senator Marc Bean earns $153,000 for consultation work provided to the Cabinet Office.
The figures were revealed in Parliamentary Questions earlier this week.
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DATE: Feb 26, 2010
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Bermuda Democratic Alliance supports the outlawing of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, new leader Craig Cannonier revealed yesterday.
Mr. Cannonier told The Royal Gazette his party believes the Human Rights Act should be amended t...
DATE: Feb 25, 2010
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Half of Bermuda international businesses surveyed say they have outsourced operations from the Island over the past five years, impacting 600 jobs.
The Association of Bermuda International Companies' survey also found that public education and the po...
DATE: Feb 25, 2010
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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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