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We not only want to woo the international businesses and their financiers here, but we also want them to be encouraged to stay. Let us look at making our fees and rents more competitive so that the cost of doing business here, compares favourably wit...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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Once again, the cost of owning a vehicle is increasing through vehicle licence and other fees. This is a nuisance tax and the increase will only bring the Government $900,000 in a budget of $385 million, only 0.30 percent. Although, the economy is st...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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the future, Shadow Finance Minister Mr. Eugene Cox charged yesterday.
"Mr. Mrs. and Ms Average Bermuda will bear the heaviest tax burdens,'' he told MPs.
"It was not enough that they were the ones who bore the brunt of the recession. Now they are bei...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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workers' tips prompted a hotel official to appeal: "Enough is enough.'' Hotel Employers of Bermuda executive vice president Mr. John Harvey worried yesterday that the Bermuda Industrial Union was stirring up trouble just as the high season was appro...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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Mystery continues to surround the disappearance of four-year-old Down's Syndrome victim Chaona Woolridge.
A Coroner yesterday returned an open verdict on fate of the St. David's girl, who vanished almost two years ago as her family prepared to leave ...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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Yesterday a senior Policeman linked the wave to people using heroin and cocaine.
The latest crime saw a 42-year-old Southampton man stabbed to death on Sunday night.
Mr. Clarence Ellsworth (Trees) Smith, of Riviera Road, was knifed at Southampton Ran...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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man's burden''.
Shadow Finance Minister Mr. Eugene Cox declared: "Mr., Mrs. and Ms Average Bermuda will bear the heaviest tax burdens.'' Mr. Cox also spelled out the dangers of easing exchange controls, saying it could cause a property slump and dam...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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story of a black West Indian slave.
Mary Prince, was the first black Bermudian-born female to record the history of her enslavement and her life after being freed.
More than 100 Bermudians came to the Kenneth Ellsworth Robinson Memorial Lecture at Be...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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Bermudian.'' -- Shadow Finance Minister Mr. Eugene Cox .
"At the slightest hint of a diversity of opinion, they degenerate into the politics of recrimination.'' -- Mr. Cox on the UBP's Independence troubles.
"There is no such thing as a free lunch. I...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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Project.
For the second straight year, Cable & Wireless is sponsoring the project, which uses satellites and video screens to allow local students to "accompany'' explorers onland and underwater.
This year's project, called Jason V, is under way at t...
DATE: Feb 22, 1994
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