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Fifty-five percent of Bermuda's energy distribution network is underground
Each residential electricity consumer in Bermuda produces around 6.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year
Bermuda has nearly 2,300 motor vehicles per square mile
Bermuda is ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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Police need to take "decisive, aggressive and appropriately violent action" to tackle Bermuda's criminals, Public Safety Minister David Burch claimed yesterday.
The Minister, defending a $2.3 million cut in the Policing budget this year, told a press...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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The 14-year manslaughter sentence meted out to Arnold Astwood marks the end of a tragic chapter for the family of victim Ruth Binns.
Less than a year before her death at his hands, she lost her brother Edward (Sleepy) Dill, who was stabbed to death b...
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MPs have approved legislation which will allow Government to increase its overdraft from $15 million to more than $110 million this year.
The Temporary Loans Amendment Act 2009 was passed in the House of Assembly on Monday evening and will enable Gov...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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• The Police budget has been cut from $62.8 million to $60.5 million this year. The amount slashed — $2.3 million — amounts to less than four percent of the 2008/09 Police budget.
• The reduction includes a $941,000 cut in training, which includes $3...
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Bermuda ranks 15th in the world in per capita carbon dioxide production far higher than a slew of industrialised countries.
According to Government's Green Paper on Energy, Bermuda produces an incredible 11 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per pers...
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Shadow Housing Minister Donte Hunt has said Government needs to "drill down more" and give better detail on planned projects in their annual Budget. The Opposition MP told the House of Assembly on Monday that he couldn't see an overall plan for housi...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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It costs almost four times as much to keep a prisoner at Westgate as to educate a child, Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin claimed in Parliament this week.
The Shadow Works and Engineering Minister said a way of deploying resources more effective...
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Public Safety Minister David Burch yesterday described an armed gang attack in Hamilton Parish which left three men needing hospital treatment as "a very sorry commentary on our country".
He told a press conference that it was "almost incomprehensibl...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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Seniors will see a five percent rise in pension payments from August but contributors will not have to pay more into the scheme for at least a year.
MPs voted for the amendment, which will give some pensioners as much as $105.67 extra each month.
"Th...
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