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Bermuda’s decades of decline in tourism numbers coupled with an overview of the difficulties the industry has still to overcome are detailed in a Travel Weekly report, published in its most recent issue.
Travel Weekly describes itself as “the travel ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Premier Michael Dunkley has fired back at Ed Miliband in the wake of the British Opposition leader’s threat to target Bermuda in a tax avoidance clampdown.
Mr Miliband said over the weekend that a Labour Government would give overseas territories suc...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Other
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OBA MP and business owner Jeff Sousa has launched a non-political campaign to save the Agricultural Show.
He is in the process of establishing a a committee to help organise the 77th annual event for which Government cut funding this year as part of...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
New legal actions have been launched against the developer of the proposed Par-la-Ville hotel project.
According to a writ filed on Friday by Conyers Dill & Pearman Ltd, Mexico Infrastructure Finance LLC is suing Michael MacLean, director of Par-la-V...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermudian Christopher Frith first became interested in filmmaking after being “blown away” by the Star Wars films and realising during the credits that people actually get paid for this line of work.
Fast forward a few years and the 23-year-old is n...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Proposals submitted to Government for a new Emergency Housing Facility would allow for twice as many homeless people to benefit from its services than at the current facility on Marsh Lane.
Government has donated the Bishop Spencer School building o...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The conviction of a man found guilty of threatening the mother of his children has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
Jarmaine Broadley, 38, from Southampton, had denied using menacing words during a phone conversation in November 2013.
During his tri...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The facts would suggest that UK Opposition leader Ed Miliband’s threat to “blacklist” Bermuda appears to be designed more to win votes in the General Election in May than as a serious policy proposal.
Among the multiple ironies surrounding his propos...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Other
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Bermuda is “at the edge of a cliff, about to fall over and still trying to decide if we’re going to call for help” when it comes to reviving its economy, according to former Premier John Swan.
“We’ve left everything too late — we’re a dollar too poor...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health and safety grievances have piled up for public transport workers, according to Shadow Transport Minister Lawrence Scott, who has accused Government of “foot dragging and mismanagement”.
However, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell called the al...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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