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The number of tourists visiting the House of Assembly fell by more than 27 percent last year.
Junior Minister Michael Scott, delivering the Budget brief for the Ministry of Justice in the House, said 527 tourists visited in 2008, compared to 729 in 2...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards told MPs last night that the qualified audit on Government's Consolidated Fund and the Premier's response reflected badly on Government as an entity and on the Island as a whole.
Mr. Richards said during the motio...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown yesterday called on the Governor to request the resignation of Auditor General Larry Dennis, claiming he had politicised the job.
His comments came after the release of a special report by Mr. Dennis which gave a qualified audit o...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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The taxpayer has shelled out around $1.8 million in overpayments to US advertising agency, GlobalHue, says Auditor General Larry Dennis.
And when Tourism's Director of Sales and Marketing began to investigate he was given a massive $440,000 severance...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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A Bill to expand respite care, pensions and other benefits to war veterans received its second reading in the Senate yesterday.
Senators have now submitted The Pensions and Gratuities (War Service) Amendment Act 2009 back to the House of Assembly wit...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Government is launching a website to promote the talents of Bermudian musicians.
The initiative will strike a chord with local artists, some of whom feel they are "undervalued".
Junior Minister of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, Senator Thaao Dill...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Traffic ground to a halt on Par-la-Ville Road yesterday evening when Police stopped a car and got into a struggle with the occupants eventually quelling them with incapacitant spray.
A Police spokesman said: "Around 6:40pm, Police on mobile patrol in...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Popular song writer Matthew Clarke was found dead in his bed with 26 stab wounds and blunt trauma injuries to his head and brain, a prosecutor told a jury this morning.
Rory Field, Director of Public Prosecutions, was addressing the opening of the Su...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards told MPs last night that the qualified audit on Government's Consolidated Fund and the Premier's response reflected badly on Government as an entity and on the Island as a whole.
Mr. Richards said during the motio...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A taxi driver who let rip with a negative rant about tourism to a visiting couple has received a tongue-lashing himself — from no less than the Premier.
For little did the cabbie know that the pair in the back of his vehicle were hotel developer Carl...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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