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DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Blaire Simmons
A sail training organisation has asked for permission to set up operations at a Government-owned park.
USail said it wanted to build a storage shed and portable toilets at Harrington Sound Park in Hamilton Parish, which it planned to use as a base f...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 500-page report by a Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses signalled “the last mile” of a decades-long race, the Premier said yesterday.
David Burt highlighted that the document would be difficult for some people to read and was among...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Higher than expected Government revenues this year have been overtaken by pandemic-related expenses, the House of Assembly heard yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told the House that estimated revenues for the year would be $8 mil...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than $6 million was paid in consultancy fees to four professional services firms over 19 months, MPs were told yesterday.
But Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said more than 60 per cent of the cash went to EY under an order from the court...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A cab driver who led the Bermuda Taxi Operators Association was also a keen veteran of the annual Marathon Derby as well as a race organiser.
Lee Tucker, who started running in 1944 and went on to train and manage competitive runners, was a member of...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A total of 56 recommendations were made under six headings in a report by the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses.
The panel, headed by retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller, examined alleged land losses said to have happened “through th...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda joined the rest of the world today to celebrate Human Rights Day.
The event at City Hall in Hamilton, organised by the Human Rights Commission, Social Justice Bermuda, Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda and Imagine Bermuda, highlighted the ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new fleet of electric buses will cost less than half the price of older diesel vehicles, the transport minister told the House of Assembly yesterday morning.
Lawrence Scott said 30 buses, built by the Golden Dragon Bus Company in China at a cost of...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A section of Middle Road in Warwick was to be closed last night and later restricted to one lane to allow road-widening work to be carried out.
The Ministry of Public Works announced that the first phase of the work, east of Burnt House Hill, will in...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
