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Whether they were posted on our website stories, our Facebook pages, or our Follow It Live site, as we reported live on the Budget we were inundated with comments yesterday.
In their own words, here is a sample of some of those comments.
Congratulat...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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The Police budget was cut by $7.5 million yesterday, receiving 11 percent less funding than last year.
Minister of National Security David Burch pledged that public safety would not be compromised by the cuts.
However, the news was greeted with conce...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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The cost of interest alone on Bermuda’s spiralling public debt equates to $191,780 per day.
That is according to the Budget statement released by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday, which shows that Government borrowing has surged past ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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The Island's two senior schools have seen their budgets cut by more than 20 percent while learning support, counselling and summer school programmes have been cut by more than 30 percent.
Yesterday Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith announced ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Programmes to help at-risk young people and small businesses were two victims of Premier Paula Cox’s cost-cutting Budget yesterday.
The Mirrors programme repeatedly heralded for turning around the lives of young men and women since its launch four ye...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
$197,000
Amount Bermuda will be paying per day on its debt in 2011/12
$6.2m
Amount of additional revenue government is receiving in wharfage after taking the revenue over from the Corporations of Hamilton and St George’s
$5.75m
Extra grants Governmen...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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The Ministry of Health will need to review every penny spent to create value for money in the coming year, said Minister Zane DeSilva.
He stated $9 million in expected cuts, spread out over various health departments.
The Ministry of Health headqua...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Premier Paula Cox yesterday cut payroll tax, hoping to stimulate the economy and lead Bermuda into recovery from recession.
Reversing the unpopular two percentage point rise she imposed last year so payroll tax returns to 14 percent Ms Cox says she’s...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox slashed employment costs for businesses today, when she announced in her Budget statement that the rate of payroll tax will be cut by two percentage points from April.
The move takes the rate from 16 percent to ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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The Governor and Police Commissioner have advised the anonymous author of a letter about gang crime to take their tip offs to the Police, not give them to the media.
The Royal Gazette recieved a copy of the type-written letter this week. Entitled “Wo...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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