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with massive tax hikes -- reneging on a PLP election pledge, it has been claimed.
Many of the Island's accomodations are set to see land tax increases of between 30 and 60 percent -- with at least one small hotel being whacked with a huge 116 percent...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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Commerce Act.
Government's job is to act as a facilitator for e-commerce and to set standards so that Bermuda could maintain its reputation as a pristine jurisdiction, Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb told the House of Assembly.
Concluding the ...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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enhancing Bermuda's tourism product.
Stacey Evans has recently taken over at the helm of the organisation and the hospitality industry veteran has at least three new schemes in the pipeline.
Although not revealing what the ideas are, Stacey is determ...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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November, 1998 election was the well-founded criticism that it had, over 30 years in government, grown arrogant.
Now there are early signs that the still-new Progressive Labour Party Government is picking up some of the same bad habits.
Friday night'...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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Amendment Act.
Opposition demands to know what an extra $7 million to be raised from land tax this year will be spent on went unanswered in the House of Assembly on Friday.
United Bermuda Party MPs went on the offensive over the tax, which the Govern...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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blotter yesterday.
A thief who stole a Coach handbag from a Victoria Street building will have a lot to chew on this morning after he figures out what to do with a pair of false teeth found inside.
The culprit forced an office door and took the lime ...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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14 months before a Bermudian candidate takes over was yesterday questioned by Shadow Home Affairs Minister Michael Dunkley.
And Mr. Dunkley challenged Government to reveal if the deal to keep Dr. Peters and later give US-based Dr. Larita Alford the j...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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The wife of a Government backbencher is allowing her dog to stray in the Harlem Heights, Hamilton Parish area, a neighbour has claimed.
But Linda Horton, wife of Hamilton West MP Randolph Horton, last night claimed her efforts at "compromise and neig...
DATE: Jul 19, 1999
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A massive $5,000-a-week travel bill has been run up by Premier Jennifer Smith and her Chief of Staff David Burch in just two months.
And Bermuda's frequent flier Government was blasted by Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons.
He branded the costs fo...
DATE: Jul 17, 1999
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`People whose job it is delivering the mail will find e-mail eliminates the need for them.' -- Finance Minister Eugene Cox on how employment will change as the Internet expands.
`It's a wonderful place where the Government cannot control what is down...
DATE: Jul 17, 1999
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