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39,832
Total number of jobs in Bermuda in 2007, an increase of 1.6 percent over 2006.
5,725
Projected number of Government employees in 2008-9, compared to 5,642 in 2007-8.
$1 billion+
Bermuda's projected balance of payments surplus in 2007 is exopec...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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The newly developed Mirrors programme and the free day care initiative will receive a combined total of $2.5 million over the next year.
The Budget statement provided the Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation with a budget of $60.2 million. ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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A ban on certain dog breeds could be scratched to give owners and breeders "greater freedom of choice", Government announced yesterday.
In what appeared to be a backtrack on the ban on 'dangerous' breeds such as pit bulls, bull terriers, mastiffs and...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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The long-awaited clean-up of Morgan's Point won a mention in yesterday's Budget statement — but its cost to the taxpayer remains unknown.
Environment Minister El James told The Royal Gazette it would not be as much as the most recently quoted figure ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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An expanding international business sector has fuelled the booming Bermuda economy, but growth is likely to slow down this year as global economic factors impact on the Island, Finance Minister Paula Cox said yesterday.
In her summary of the economic...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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The National Budget was unveiled today and saw the election promise of free tuition to Bermuda College granted; the expansion of the Economic Empowerment Zone to the eastern and western ends of the Island, and suggested an increase in taxes.
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DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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ROADWORKS along a stretch of north Hamiton could continue for a further four months, according to officials.
Work on laying a new sewage pipe began last week, forcing a section of Queen Street to be limited to one-way traffic. Dundonald Street, Bull'...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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New York Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce, whose father is Bermudian, was accused of neglecting one of his dogs in the days leading up to the Super Bowl.
According to reports on ESPN the Middlesex County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anima...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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Talks on settling the pay dispute with the civil service union could start next week - if the matter doesn't get referred to binding arbitration first.
The Bermuda Public Services Union issued a 21-day strike notice on Wednesday in protest over a fou...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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BERMUDA'S Under-19 cricket team lost to Namibia by 102 runs in another warm-up match yesterday ahead of next week's World Cup in Malaysia.
Earlier this week Bermuda were thrashed by Nepal in a warm-up match and cricketing Development Director Arnold ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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