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DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Event
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AUTHOR:
Akil Simmons
A police officer tasked with reviewing applications for large-group exemptions initially recommended that an event at Blu Bar and Grill in the midst of the pandemic be refused permission, determining that it would “make an ass out of regulations”.
Se...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government is to make changes to the controversial sugar tax, the Premier has revealed.
Speaking during a debate in the House of Assembly yesterday afternoon on the Customs Tariff Amendment Act — which will provide customs relief on 21 food and h...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Concerns were raised by members of the Opposition about fuel regulation legislation being “rushed” through Parliament without proper consultation with the industry.
The Fuels Bill 2022, which brings the regulation of the fuel sector under the remit o...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Curtis Dickinson has insisted that he wants to work with David Burt in government if he topples him in the looming Progressive Labour Party leadership fight.
With the two former Cabinet colleagues going head-to-head in the contest’s first debate toni...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Parliamentarians approved the final extension of Covid-19 public health emergency measures.
Public Health (Covid-19) Emergency Extension (No 1) Order 2022, which extends the measures until November 30, was passed in the House last night with no obje...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The number of visitors arriving in Bermuda will be just over half the figure seen in 2019, Vance Campbell, the tourism minister, said yesterday.
He told MPs that while the projected tally for the year was 56 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, the indus...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Public school teachers were to blame for not getting paid for September because they did not provide paperwork in time, Diallo Rabain, the education minister, told MPs yesterday.
Mr Rabain said they would get their salaries at the end of this week, ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Moves to stop hospitality staff having to hand over payroll tax on their tips have been passed by MPs.
Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, said the change was needed to cover tips generated by a service charge on customer bills.
The minister ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
More than $21 million is to be spent renovating older homes to increase the amount of affordable housing, MPs were told yesterday.
Delivering a statement to MPs, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said that the Cabinet had ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
