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Government has set aside $500,000 for the development and commercialisation of Bermuda's "satellite assets".
Telecommunications Minister Michael Scott said the Island could earn money by capitalising on orbital slots received nearly three decades ago...
DATE: Mar 11, 2010
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The teenager accused of murdering Kellon Hill insisted to a jury that he did not stab him.
Kellan Lewis admitted getting into a fight with the 18-year-old victim, but denied using a knife against him.
Mr. Hill, a college student, died from a stab wou...
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The United Bermuda Party is overwhelming civil servants with parliamentary questions, Premier Ewart Brown complained this week.
He told the House of Assembly during a presentation on the Department of Statistics that if its response times had slowed ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2010
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The payroll tax rise imposed by the Budget will "diminish job opportunities for Bermudians", a group of the Island's major international insurers has told Government leaders.
The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) argues that the t...
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Just five percent of Bermuda residents want Government to take over the corporations of Hamilton and St. George's, according to a new survey.
Fifty-two percent said they were against such a move — with the rest undecided or not caring — in the Resear...
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In its survey for Save Our City, set up to stop the abolition of the Corporation of Hamilton, Research.bm found that people in Bermuda were overwhelmingly against any move to get rid of the organisation. Here are some of the comments from those surve...
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Reserves for the Government's Health Insurance Plan fell 57 percent last year.
Health Minister Walter Roban told the House of Assembly this was because the Health Insurance Department paid off its extensive backlog of claims.
The Department — which ...
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Graduates will be able to apply for the latest round of Government's JumpStart intern programme next month.
Premier Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly that the Cabinet Office would advertise the third year of the scheme in April.
Seven interns ar...
DATE: Mar 11, 2010
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The Ombudsman has made important slave registers public because the Bermuda archive management declined requests to do so.
In a press statement, Ombudsman Arlene Brock explained her reasons for forwarding the databases of the 1821 and 1834 registers ...
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Here are some of the comments from people responding to Research.bm's survey when asked: "What is the real reason for Government wanting to take over the municipalities?"
"I believe the present Government can't bear the fact that there are separate e...
DATE: Mar 11, 2010
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