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Andy Warhol once said in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
Annie Young certainly had her moment in the spotlight yesterday arguably for all the wrong reasons.
Ms Young is the owner of True Reflections, a Hamilton store selling every...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda representative Smokey the dachshund didn’t win a place in New York’s Westminster dog show but his owner is hoping he will soon start a new pedigree bloodline here.
The Island’s first American Kennel Club-registered grand champion ultimately l...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
As expected when the new Muncipalities Act was passed last year, the Corporations of Hamilton and St. George’s have lost their right to directly collect wharfage fees from ships using their docks.
But most of the projected $6.215 million that they w...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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A text rumour of an alleged attempt to snatch a child may be false, police have warned.
A message circulating among the public alleges that a man tried to abduct a boy from the bus terminal.
It goes on to describe both the suspect and the vehicle use...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s chess players did their bit for tourism at the weekend attracting scores of overseas visitors for an international competition.
Participants in the 27th Bermuda International Open Chess Tournament came from all over the world, including Uga...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
This year’s Budget delivered on widespread expectations for cuts in one of Government’s most contentious expenses: consultants.
The combined cost of consultants for 2010-2011 was $43.5 million, $6.6 million less than in the previous year.
Now it will...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cutting payroll tax may help to staunch job losses but won’t necessarily create new employment, business leaders warned yesterday.
They welcomed the decision by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox to drop payroll tax to 14 percent after increasing...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Two airlines intend to reduce the number of flights they offer to Bermuda in the coming fiscal year it was announced yesterday.
Minister of Transport Terry Lister said WestJet, which flies out of Toronto, and JetBlue, which flies out of New York, hav...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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The Mirrors Programme, widely praised for helping young people to turn their lives around, will have its budget cut by $870,000 or 34 percent.
The cut was one of many infleicted on the Ministry of Youth, Families, Sports and Community Development, wh...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Finance Ministry forecasters do not expect Bermuda’s economy to emerge from recession until the middle of next year.
The grim prognosis came in the National Economic Report of 2010, which estimates that Bermuda’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell fou...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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