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Sick days by Government workers cost more than $10 million a year, statistics in a new report on Government efficiency have revealed.
Bermuda public servants take an average of eight days off sick every year — nearly 42,000 days in total.
The SAGE Co...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda should have just three Post Offices in a bid to stem losses predicted to amount to $134 million over the next decade.
And the SAGE Commission said direct delivery to homes and businesses should end, with people picking up their mail at centra...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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The Island’s Civil Service needs urgent reform to cuts costs and boost performance, a major report into Government spending said yesterday.
And the 140-page SAGE report recommended the need for a strategic plan, while saying other parts of the public...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A habitual thief who hacked a man in the neck with a machete after being surprised during a break-in has been jailed for 13 years.
Kimlo Charles Webb fled the scene of the attack — but was caught on home security footage.
The Supreme Court heard that...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute should be shut down and the site sold off, a commission into Government agency has recommended.
The SAGE Commission said upgrading the Devonshire psychiatric hospital would cost around $40 million — and that the ho...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
There will be a “slight delay” in the move into the new acute care wing at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, according to Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin.
The Minister told MPs yesterday that the Bermuda Hospitals Board would give more detai...
DATE: Nov 16, 2013
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A UK MP has questioned why Bermuda’s flag was taken down from London’s Parliament Square days before Remembrance Day.
Andrew Rosindell, the chairman of the British Overseas Territories All Party Parliamentary Group, said in a letter to Prime Minister...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two teenagers have denied snatching an elderly woman’s purse as she was walking toward a Pembroke nursing home.
Marcus Tucker, 19, and Kairi Tucker, 17, appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of snatching a 76-year-old woman’s purse, robbin...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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When it comes to ideas for community fundraising events, the Caines brothers are certainly able.
On the back their latest community outreach, where 215 schoolboys received free haircuts ahead of the new school year, Dwayne and Wayne Caines are now to...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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The City of Hamilton has launched a legal suit against Ombudsman Arlene Brock, in the continuing battle over Hamilton’s secretive project for the redevelopment of the city’s waterfront.
The application for a judicial review cites the Ombudsman’s “dec...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
