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Deputy Mayor Donal Smith will today announce plans for Bermuda to host the annual conference for an organisation that is split over who is officially in charge.
The 40th annual conference for the National Conference of Black Mayors has been pencilled...
DATE: Feb 25, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Union chief Kevin Grant says that a boost for international business on the Island could bring economic benefit — but that Bermudians needed to be sold on the sector.
Mr Grant said: “When people hear about people coming to our shore, there is some pu...
DATE: Feb 25, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A “public conversation” on cannabis reform will be held tonight by the Cannabis Reform Committee, with a four-person panel presenting on local and overseas perspectives.
They will tackle such questions as whether Bermuda’s cannabis policies should be...
DATE: Feb 25, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda seems to be in the early stages of an economic recovery, according to Minister of Finance Bob Richards
“There seems to a nascent, fragile, embryonic recovery in Bermuda,” Mr Richards told hundreds of business people at the Fairmont Hamilton P...
DATE: Feb 25, 2014
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Environmental charity Greenrock has backed a bid by Finance Minister Bob Richards to end power firm Belco’s monopoly and generate more power from renewable sources.
Greenrock executive director Gordon Johnson said Government should encourage business...
DATE: Feb 25, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Government slashed grants and contributions to a number of organisations in the recently unveiled 2014/15 Budget.
According to the 2014/15 Budget, Government intends to spend $293.7 million in grants and contributions in the coming year — $23 million...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The final casualty of the War of 1812 was remembered in a ceremony in St George’s this weekend almost 200 years after his death.
The annual Midshipman Dale ceremony, held on Saturday, marked the 199th anniversary of the American sailor’s death in St ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Single mother juggles pursing a Master’s Degree and raising a six-year-old daughter and her teenaged brother
By Nadia Arandjelovic
When Christia Swan became pregnant with her daughter, Sakairi, at age 19 her dreams of completing a university degree w...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Pembroke Hamilton Club has been given until the end of the month to pay off a $1.2 million loan from the Bermuda Industrial Union, club sources have revealed.
In 2001, the BIU loaned PHC the monies to finance resurfacing of the playing field and inst...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Decriminalisation of drugs would benefit Bermuda, but will not end the violence, according to US cop-turned-campaigner Jack Cole.
Mr Cole, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), is on the Island this week to speak with the public a...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
