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AIG Bermuda have pledged to support local charities by “granting the gift of employee man-hours” twice a year.
The multinational insurance giant sent 29 employees to volunteer with the Eliza DoLittle Society yesterday where they prepared and cooked f...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Newly elected Pembroke Hamilton Club (PHC) President Johnny Ball has vowed to do “everything in his power” to maintain ownership of his club’s two-storey building on Reid Street, Hamilton.
But he revealed that selling the building to help the cash-st...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Colin Thompson
A $2 million Government grant for the cash-strapped Sandys 360 centre remains “under review”, according to a Public Works spokesman.
Unable to pay its electricity bills, the West End community and sports facility was this week forced to close its doo...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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The new Tourism Authority could be self-funding within two years, saving Government millions of dollars.
The organisation, which should be up and running by next March, will take over the management of the industry from Government’s Department of Tou...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Community Minister Wayne Scott says Government is tackling the Island’s social ills with initiatives that “lay the groundwork for Bermudians to earn a better life”.
And he told a Sandys Rotary Club meeting last night that the administration had “iden...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
Tourism and Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell has accused his shadow counterpart Lawrence Scott of fabricating a figure about the cost to taxpayers of the charter ferry Millennium.
Opposition MP Mr Scott issued a press release claiming the private v...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
Members of the public are invited to attend the opening of Parliament which takes place on the lawn of the Cabinet Office tomorrow.
Premier Craig Cannonier and other Members of Parliament will gather to hear Governor George Fergusson deliver the Spee...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
Kenneth Gordon, the son of national hero Dr Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, died this week in London at the age of 86.
Mr Gordon, a musician, was also the half-brother of former Premier Dame Pamela Gordon and Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin
The you...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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The One Bermuda Alliance has produced a 54-point summary of its achievements since it became the Government after winning last December’s general election.
In a full-page paid advertisement on Page 3 of today’s Royal Gazette, the party says it has la...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A family whose pets were featured on national television described the experience as surreal.
On Sunday a video clip of three-year old cat Pongo “massaging” boxer dog Annie was highlighted on ABC’s ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos.’
While owner Robin ...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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