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Bermuda is on a “glide path” to a small budget surplus by 2023-24, the finance minister said yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson added the country’s last round of borrowing was calculated to last until that financial year.
Mr Dickinson said: “We have borrowe...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An accounting and auditing heavyweight is to lead the Government’s economic recovery plan, the finance minister revealed yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said financial services firm KPMG had been selected as the project manager for the plan, outlined in ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man dubbed “the motorcycle bandit” appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday as prosecutors argued his sentence was too lenient.
Troy Woods, 50, was given a suspended sentence after he was convicted of obtaining money by deception in an incident in D...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Interest in tracing family ancestry soared during the pandemic, according to the National Museum of Bermuda.
The museum’s online genealogy database was used more than ever in 2020, prompting the launch of the 2021 series “Tracing Their Roots/Routes”...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police are investigating a fight at a Warwick hotel property that involved helmets, a knife and a machete.
A police spokesman said today that shortly after 10pm on October 22, police received reports of about 20 people embroiled in a fight at Azura B...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police and the Bermuda Coast Guard were called into action after a van slid off a road into a bay in the early hours of this morning.
The incident happened just after 5am near the swing bridge on St. David’s Road, near St George’s.
A search of the ve...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An educator told the Supreme Court that the Bermuda Union of Teachers had blocked him from running for union office after he sought to raise serious concerns with members.
Leonard Santucci, the BUT representative for the Berkeley Institute, had calle...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A convicted sex offender has been given an opportunity to fight his deportation after a ruling by the Supreme Court.
Brittonie Taylor, who served eight years for a serious sex assault, was set to be sent back to his homeland of Jamaica.
But Victoria...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two locations have been identified as possible sites for an offshore wind farm, according to an initial report.
But further studies need to be carried out before it can be decided if the project to bring sustainable energy to the island is viable.
Th...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The catching of some species of shark could soon be outlawed in Bermuda, the minister responsible for the environment has revealed.
Walter Roban, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Deputy Premier, told The Royal Gazette that legislation is curren...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan