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Retail continues to generate the most complaints from Bermuda consumers, with refunds and returns comprising 23 percent of objections for 2009.
Case investigations by Consumer Affairs are dominated by the car industry: 64 percent of complaints involv...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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Equal rights campaigner and former MP Renee Webb said she is pleased Government is going to amend the Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation.
Last week Government released a booklet, ‘Resetting the Dial’, to mark the first 100 days of Premier...
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The Regiment has a disproportionate number of black conscripts, officers who make racist comments and soldiers who visit strip joints and prostitutes, according to Bermudians Against the Draft [BAD].
Members of the campaign group and their lawyer, Eu...
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Popular Paget restaurant Splendido is looking for a new home after being told they can no longer stay at Horizons Cottages.
Yesterday owner Angelo Buglione said they had recently been told the Bermuda Hospital Board (BHB), who rent the majority of th...
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Work in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) kitchen came to a halt yesterday morning after an argument between management and staff.
However both sides were able to come to an agreement, allowing work to resume in the early afternoon.
A pers...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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Unemployed locals have been told to attend hospitality fair later this month to find work opportunities.
Minister of Economy Kim Wilson said people should show up at the February 17 fair.
“I encourage all Bermudians who are seeking employment to atte...
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Regiment Commanding Officer (CO) Brian Gonsalves admitted a soldier suffered an attempted rape at knifepoint by another soldier in 2005.
He told Supreme Court the Regiment dealt with the matter, and the culprit served 58 days in military jail.
Lt Col...
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Bermuda-based re/insurer Axis Capital Ltd saw profits rise by 78 percent last year.
The company said in a statement after the close of US markets today that its net earnings totalled $820 million, compared to $461 million in 2009.
Axis said its profi...
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Every Bermuda resident will be provided with basic and essential healthcare by 2013, under a revolutionary National Health Plan unveiled today.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva said the plan would introduce wide-ranging and profound reforms to the Islan...
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Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd has reported that its fourth-quarter net earnings fell 42 percent after more than $50 million of additional losses from the New Zealand earthquake that struck in September.
The company reported net income of $...
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