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Opposition MPs last night demanded a better explanation from Government as to why it spent an extra $15 million last year on a subsidy for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The Budget for 2009/10 gave an original estimate of $85.6 million for the su...
DATE: Mar 20, 2010
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The Minister of Works and Engineering has defended the "reinstatement" of a road in St. George's.
During a five-hour debate on the Works and Engineering budget, Derrick Burgess argued that the road was necessary to free "landlocked" seniors from thei...
DATE: Mar 20, 2010
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Former United Bermuda Party Leader Wayne Furbert yesterday completed his switch to the Progressive Labour Party, telling the public: "My contribution must be to help our Government succeed."
Delivering a personal explanation to the House of Assembly ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2010
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Minister of Works and Engineering Derrick Burgess said the cost of the new Police/Court building is "fully justified" despite going over budget by more than $20 million.
Mr. Burgess was speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday during his Ministry'...
DATE: Mar 20, 2010
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Cabbie robbed by gun-wielding man
A Sandys taxi driver was robbed by a man apparently wielding a gun after he was flagged down for a lift.
The incident happened at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday and according to Police, the 44-year-old taxi driver was workin...
DATE: Mar 20, 2010
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Cutting the Ministry of Education's budget by $6 million is not the right way forward, according to the Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU).
BPSU general secretary Ed Ball Jr. said he thought the Ministry would have been the last to have a budget de...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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Civil servants are being encouraged to ditch their desks for the outdoors.
Head of the Civil Service, Kenneth Dill, wants Government staff to get fitter by taking part in this year's Catlin End to End. "I see it as an excellent opportunity to encoura...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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Pedestrian, motorcyclist injured in road crash
A 10-year-old pedestrian and 17-year-old rider of a motorcycle were taken to hospital via ambulance after a collision yesterday morning.
Police attended the scene, near Warwick Post Office, around 7.30 a...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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Minister of Environment and Sports, Glenn Blakeney, angered the Opposition after using the entire two hours allotted for his Ministry's Budget debate – preventing any response.
Cole Simons, Shadow Environment Minister and UBP Whip, expressed the Unit...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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There is no truth to E-mails currently circulating that say residents are exempt from paying stamp duty on their primary family homestead, the Government warned today,
The advisory was issued after the discovery of several unauthorised and “misleadin...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010
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