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A bill raising Government’s health insurance premiums has been tabled in the House of Assembly.
The Health Insurance (Standard Hospital Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2013 will set a new monthly premium of $325.84.
The weekly rate is to be $75.19. In...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is set to adopt international standards to combat bribery, according to Governor George Fergusson.
Speaking before an international workshop yesterday, the Governor said the UK delegate to the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Developm...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Catholic Church officially named Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina the new Pope yesterday.
The new Pope, who has selected the name of Pope Francis I, was selected by a group of 115 cardinals. In order to be elected, Pope Francis had to ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A five percent pay cut agreed by parliamentarians a year ago to appease angry unions has been ditched by the One Bermuda Alliance.
Premier Craig Cannonier insisted last night Government was “prohibited from opting to keep the reduced salaries” in pla...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Elected officials of the City of Hamilton charged ahead on their own when they set about inking deals for the waterfront redevelopment project.
Former Progressive Labour Party Ministers have told this newspaper that no decisions had been made on the ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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Declaration comes as $100 million in supplementary budget estimates are presented to Parliament
By Ayo Johnson
Finance Minister Bob Richards tabled close to $100 million of supplementary budget estimates in the House of Assembly yesterday.
But the ne...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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Politics
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Magistrate hits Pembroke man with $3,600 in fines for a series of traffic offences
By Ceola Wilson
A 36-year-old Pembroke man was fined $3,600 yesterday and disqualified from driving all vehicles for the next four years.
Devonne Calvin Simmons, 36, ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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Bermuda will this week host an international workshop aimed at investigating and prosecuting transnational crime.
The 2013 Commonwealth Caribbean Regional Workshop is set to begin this morning at the Fairmont Hamilton.
The workshop will be attended b...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government is remaining tight-lipped on the financial status of a company headed up by Tourism Board chief David Dodwell that is reported to be massively in debt to Government.
Hotelier Mr Dodwell — a former United Bermuda Party Tourism Minster — is ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government is to discuss the fate of the Uighurs with US and UK authorities, according to their lawyer.
The news comes as a Chinese Muslim jailed at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba with the four men, disappeared from the island of Palau in the Pacific and re-em...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
