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MPs passed a bill to set up an unemployment insurance fund this week.
Finance Minister Eugene Cox said the bill fulfilled a call he had made more than ten years previously when the PLP was in Opposition.
Government is to put in $1 million seed money ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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Government's computer system has been hit by several viruses in the past, the Minister of Telecommunications and E-commerce Renee Webb revealed yesterday.
But new software was now in place to minimise these kind of security breaches, she said.
Ms Web...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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A number of the Island's contracting bosses appear to be expanding their business interests with word emerging yesterday that there could soon be a new owner of Gorham's Ltd. and that SKB Coatings Ltd. was sold recently.
Zane DeSilva, of Island Const...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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A proclamation from the steps of Parliament by Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday marked Bermuda's observation of International's Women's Day.
Ms Smith said the day is designated by the United Nations and is an initiative started more than twenty years...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
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Bermuda should have one fire service under a unified command, Bermuda's new Chief Fire Officer says.
Labour and Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister introduced Vincent Hollinsid as the successor to retired fire chief Reginald Rawlins at a press confere...
DATE: Mar 08, 2002
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The US Consulate General has contacted Bermuda Police after an American Immigration officer was attacked in St. George's.
The 34-year-old officer, who had just arrived on the Island, was assaulted by a group of thugs in York Street on February 15 and...
DATE: Mar 08, 2002
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Taxi drivers upset with Government plans for a cab tracking system are assessing their options after a meeting on Wednesday night temporarily ruled out strike action.
But Bermuda Taxi Owners Association (BTOA) president Gordon Flood said strike acti...
DATE: Mar 08, 2002
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The Annual Report 2001 of the Bermuda Housing Corporation was tabled Wednesday in Parliament as Health Minister Nelson Bascome made a ministerial statement on allegations of corruption in the Corporation this week.
The fact that the annual report fro...
DATE: Mar 08, 2002
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With just four days remaining before Bermuda-born Tracy Housel is due to be executed by lethal injection in a Georgia prison, efforts to have his sentence commuted to a term of imprisonment have now reached the pinnacle of the British government.
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DATE: Mar 08, 2002
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The Ministry of Environment is looking to the future, Minister Dennis Lister told Parliament on Wednesday.
The Ministry had to work within budgetary constraints this year but current departmental restructuring is intended to leave the Ministry in goo...
DATE: Mar 08, 2002
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