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Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday.
Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Plumes of smoke from Belco’s North Power Plant were caused by tests run on its new generators, the company said yesterday.
A spokesman for Ascendant Group, the parent company of the electricity producer, said that tests had twice caused “brief discha...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The One Bermuda Alliance challenged whether David Burt misled the House of Assembly on Friday night.
The Premier accused the pressure group Patients 1st, which opposes the Government’s health plan 2020, of being “run by the insurance companies”.
The ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Governor John Rankin, along with the Deputy Governor Alison Crocket, was today pleased to receive at Government House the Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, Premier of the Turks & Caicos Islands, along with members of her Government.
The deleg...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Press Release
Businesswomen Susan Pateras-Maybury and Suzanne Khan have launched The Art of You, a movement to help women become their best selves.
The Art of You’s first event, a three-day women’s transformation series, will be held from March 20 to 22 at the Elb...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The Royal Bermuda Regiment’s latest recruits were visited by David Burt, the Premier.
Mr Burt and Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, met recruits, along with members of the RBR senior leadership team, as they started their training this...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities.
More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Auditor-General has called on the Government to take action over publicly funded bodies that have failed to release their audited financial statements.
Heather Thomas revealed 29 public authorities were in arrears of more than 100 years of financ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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Longbird Bridge will be closed to marine traffic for several weeks as workers remove the old bridge.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said the bridge would be closed for boats from Friday until April 13.
He said: “The closure will facilit...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda has been removed from the European Union’s “grey list” on tax matters and added to the “white list” of co-operative jurisdictions.
EU finance ministers made the decision yesterday, while at the same time adding the island’s offshore rival th...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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