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The Green family has purchased the former Sonesta Beach Resort from a US-based financial institution.
The family is now conducting a review of the Southampton Beach Resort to determine the way forward with the 32-acre South Shore property.
They inten...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Tourism
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Bermuda’s National Health Plan has been put “on hold” pending a review of the ambitious programme.
It had been expected that the plan would provide universal healthcare for residents by next year.
However, a Health Ministry spokeswoman yesterday sai...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cash-strapped families are getting their electricity cut off in increasing numbers, according to social assistance agencies.
The Coalition for the Protection of Children’s Nicola Fleming said the majority of the charity’s new clients over the past ye...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The second annual City Food Festival launched in Hamilton yesterday, bringing cooking competitions to the Bermuda Gas Showrooms.
Organiser Thomas Lightbourne said a group of chefs were given ingredients over the weekend and were asked to make three t...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Legislation ending the exemption for vehicle licensing fees for seniors was approved in the House of Assembly early this morning, despite arguments from the Opposition.
Government described the exemption as a mistake, but the Progressive Labour Party...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government is getting out of the real estate business, Community Development Minister Wayne Scott told the House of Assembly yesterday.
This as legislators on both sides of the House acknowledged the failure of the Grand Atlantic development and a ch...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Politics
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Police arrested two men early on Sunday morning after they were spotted driving erratically.
A police spokesman said yesterday that at around 2.30am, officers on mobile patrol on Crow Lane stopped a 30-year-old Pembroke man on a motorcycle.
An hour a...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public is being warned not to worry when they see tsunami warnings posted on the Bermuda Weather Channel tomorrow — it’s all part of an exercise.
Participants in the international Atlantic tsunami exercise will include the Bermuda Weather Service...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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A continual failure to maintain Government’s fleet of fast ferries has left them in a potentially hazardous condition, it has been claimed.
A lack of cash has been blamed for the neglect, with sources claiming that maintenance work “has not been carr...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Department of Tourism’s $27.3 million budget allocation came in for heavy criticism yesterday due to the absence of funding for the new Tourism Board.
Former Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert charged the new Minister failed to explain why funds were...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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