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Yesterday’s revised Budget gave us a much clearer picture of the hammer blow that Covid-19 has dealt to public finances.
An eye-watering $295 million government deficit for the year ended March 31, 2021, is partly the result of ramping up spending t...
DATE: Nov 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
The health ministry has been ordered to process a request for information on cannabis after the Information Commissioner stepped in.
The move came after health ministry denied a Pati request for its external correspondence about cannabis, cannabinoid...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Bermuda faces “unprecedented” problems in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Leader of the Opposition warned today.
Cole Simons said: “Honestly, the next few years will be the toughest Bermuda has faced and the people are worried.“
Mr Simons said...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Commissioner of Police has contracted the coronavirus after a trip overseas, it was revealed today.
A police spokesman said Stephen Corbishley tested positive after returning to Bermuda earlier this week.
He added Mr Corbishley took a pre-travel ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Workforce training programmes to help the unemployed return to the job market will be available as early as next week, the Minister of Labour announced today.
Jason Hayward told the House of Assembly that the programmes would offer training for secto...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
An integrated service model for healthcare is expected to reduce duplication and increase efficiency, the health minister said today.
Kim Wilson added that the plan to create universal health coverage would develop over “a number of years”.
She told ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An inquiry into historic land losses will restart next Wednesday, the Commission of Inquiry announced today.
The commission is expected to hear the last pieces of evidence on the compulsory purchase of land at Tucker’s Town and St David’s Island bef...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The island’s population was 63,908 last year – a drop of just ten on the figure for 2018, the latest Registry General figures have revealed.
The figures also showed that women outnumbered men by 2,398 at the end of last year.
Walter Roban, the home a...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Government’s predicted Budget deficit of $19.8 million has ballooned to $295 million, the finance minister revealed today.
Curtis Dickinson said the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to cost Government hundreds of millions of dollars and present Be...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An artist will launch her latest book at the opening of a showcase of her work this evening.
Nicky Gurret’s exhibition – Floral and Earth Art – will run at the Bermuda Society of Art gallery until December 9.
The opening event will take place from 5...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
