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The Price Control Commission has yet to meet six months after being appointed.
The Commission was established to protect consumers from unwarranted rate increases on essential goods and services, but Finance Minister Bob Richards said Government was ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Finance Minister Bob Richards has declined to give evidence to a parliamentary select committee on elections.
The bipartisan committee, chaired by Opposition MP Walton Brown, was formed, primarily, to determine what election candidates are required t...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Sixty years ago today, Mr and Mrs Robinson were married at Cobb’s Hill Gospel Chapel in Warwick. From their home on North Shore Road in Pembroke, the two reflected on half a dozen decades of holy matrimony, and everything they’ve learned along the wa...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Bermuda Hospitals Board has admitted trimming three positions from its workforce — but a spokeswoman said the BHB does “all it can” to transfer staff to other jobs.
The remarks came after Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva told MPs he’d been contact...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Top scorer Jason Lee and Jaquan Smith-DeShields set the ball rolling for the first football match in the fifth annual Kicks for Cancer campaign.
The launch on Sunday resulted in $400 worth of goals in a North Village victory over Flanagan’s Onions at...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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The Department of Public Works is looking to install new speed humps outside of two Pembroke schools.
According to official notices in The Royal Gazette, speed humps will be installed on crosswalks near the West Pembroke Primary and Northlands Primar...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Union leader Kevin Grant has urged Government to accelerate efforts to curb prices on staple foods and utilities now that the 4.5 percent wage cut for Government workers has gone into effect.
The first cheques drawn on reduced rates were issued on Fr...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Bermuda suffered another near-record month of precipitation after almost ten inches of rain was dumped on the Island in September.
The Bermuda Weather Services said that 9.76 inches of rain had fallen during the month up to yesterday morning — almost...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Police reported 15 arrests over the weekend — including three people suspected of impaired driving.
A further 12 were arrested for outstanding warrants. Liquor licences were also checked at premises around the Island.
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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Court schedules were disrupted on Monday after a magistrate was forced to take a day off as part of a Government cost-cutting drive.
The regular session of plea court was cancelled at the eleventh hour after it was discovered that one magistrate was ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2013
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