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The Boundaries Commission is set to resume its deliberations on new electoral rules today.
Last summer, the Boundaries Commission was empowered by an order in council to make recommendations on the number, and boundaries, of new constituencies in a r...
DATE: Mar 11, 2002
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Government is to ask the Auditor General to expand an ongoing audit into the troubled Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC), following allegations of corruption and grossly inflated sums of money paid out to contractors.
"If there is anything wrong, a se...
DATE: Mar 11, 2002
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Government backbencher and union boss Derrick Burgess last night denied that his dual roles created a conflict of interests after he came under fire from Opposition MPs.
He said as a Progressive Labour Party MP and president of the Bermuda Industrial...
DATE: Mar 11, 2002
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The National Liberal Party (NLP) sees "nothing wrong" with Bermuda joining Caricom, it said in a press statement yesterday.
"The most important thing to consider before joining Caricom is for the Bermuda Government to define the benefits and to tell ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2002
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Housing Minister Sen. David Burch yesterday accused Opposition Senator Gina Spence-Farmer of behaving in a manner towards squatters at the Club Med dormitory that “bordered on criminal”.
And he said if he had his choice she would have been arrested f...
DATE: Mar 10, 2002
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Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC) general manager Raymonde Dill was silent yesterday in the face of reports of massive payments of public money to contractors and allegations of corruption.
Mr. Dill called a Press conference yesterday but cancelled i...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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Government has operated within budget every year, but one, since coming into power in November, 1998, Finance Minister Eugene Cox told his House of Assembly colleagues yesterday.
And the Country's debt, inherited from the former United Bermuda Party ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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Businesses and government offices are not adhering to health and safety standards, according to initial results from a workplace poll.
Health Minister Nelson Bascome said health and safety committees had not been established in many workplaces and aw...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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Construction workers have uncovered one of the largest, most impressive caves ever to be found in Bermuda, Environment Minister Dennis Lister told Parliament yesterday.
He said the significant cave formation was unearthed at the Wilkinson Quarry in H...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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A deal is set to be struck on the thorny baselands issue with the US set to renounce a claim to the land while Bermuda gets a $11 million payoff.
The deal concludes years of negotiations between the American, British and Bermuda Governments over who ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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