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The Bermuda Hospitality Institute has launched a series of YouTube videos in the build-up to next month’s Plates of Passion event.
The April 3 event is intended both to kick off the 2014 Hospitality Month and raise funds for hospitality education pro...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Cuts in health spending totalling $17.6 million will cause some to “suffer distress”, Health Minister Trevor Moniz told MPs.
Mr Moniz was speaking as he announced that subsidies for Standard Hospital Benefit (SHB) — the minimum cover in any health in...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The price of gas has gone up by 5.3 cents a litre.
The change means that the maximum cost at the pumps will now be 212.30 cents a litre.
Diesel fuel has also gone up by 1.2 cents a litre with the new maximum price set at 188.80 cents a litre.
Kerosen...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Premier Craig Cannonier was accused of failing to provide value for money during yesterday’s debate on the Cabinet Office budget.
In an often heated six-hour debate, Opposition leader Marc Bean also claimed that the Premier’s office had lost the conf...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Government has tabled legislation aimed at extending duty relief for the Island’s hotels and restaurants.
The Hotels (Temporary Customs Duty Relief) Amendment Bill 2014 and the Restaurants (Temporary Customs Duty Relief) Amendment Bill 2014 were both...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public’s right to know took a step closer yesterday after Craig Cannonier told MPs the recruitment process for a Commissioner to oversee freedom of information requests will start this spring.
And the Premier added that further legislation on pub...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Two men jailed for conspiring to smuggle half a million dollars’ worth of cocaine to the Island may be freed if their appeals against conviction are successful in the Supreme Court.
Footballer Everett Bean, 31, who is accused of being the kingpin in ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government has significantly stepped up its seizures of illegal dogs in the past year, according to figures released by the Department of Environmental Protection.
Animal wardens seized 136 dogs in 2013, compared to just 69 in 2012. And already this ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Island Trading has donated $5,000 to the development of the hospital’s new Acute Care Wing as the Bermuda Hospital Charitable Trust’s Why It Matters campaign continues.
Earlier this year the company donated 11 pairs of steel-toe construction boots to...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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A screening of ‘In My Hands’ — an hour-long documentary about sufferers of Marfan syndrome — will be shown on Thursday evening at 6pm at Bermuda College Library.
The event has been organised by CedarBridge Academy student Naimah Frith, who has Marfan...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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