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The Minister of Immigration failed to respond last night to repeated requests for a comment on a decision to revoke the work permit of a Canadian who was involved in an argument with another MP.
Meanwhile, the Opposition United Bermuda Party waded in...
DATE: Feb 18, 2007
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Government will spend $17,868 per senior school student this year in an attempt to reverse the abysmal public graduation rates.
But yesterday's Budget revealed that money for teacher training appears to have been slashed by 79 percent.
Minister of Ed...
DATE: Feb 18, 2007
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Age Concern has welcomed a raft of measures in the Budget to help hard-pressed seniors.
The Budget promised a pension hike of about 4.5 percent, starting in August, while the annual allowance for prescription drugs goes up by $50 to $1,200 per annum ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Government plans to turn an eye on the sky in an attempt to establish a satellite services industry on the Island.
Finance Minister Paula Cox spelled out the proposal to build an “earth station” — a facility normally fitted with at least one large di...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Union officials are calling for swift action to rebuild King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after nearly $140 million was allocated to the Ministry of Health in yesterday’s budget.
That cash includes a grant to Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) to carry ou...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Tim Smith
Government yesterday repeated its pledge to tackle the affordable homes shortage by insisting hundreds of houses would be built in the next year.
However, campaigners argued the crisis could only be eased by a “paradigm shift” in the mindset of the p...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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A former national cricket player was jailed for 14 years for importing $5 million-plus of heroin and ecstasy — the largest seizure in Bermuda's history.
Garrick Chris Williams, 31, hid more than 20,000 ecstasy tablets and almost a kilo of heroin in a...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Buses running every 15 minutes from first thing in the morning until midnight, smaller community buses for outlying areas and a new "Warbaby Fox" type ferry are amongst an armoury of transport initiatives designed to improve the experience for the tr...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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The Budget statement brought to light new programmes in the areas of crime prevention, justice, and the Regiment.
The Ministry of Public Safety and Housing has a $122 million allotment for the next fiscal year and that does not include millions more ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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North Hamilton can expect a positive 2007 after Government announced a youth organisation will receive $250,000 to encourage entrepreneurship.
Youth On the Move, based in the North Hamilton Economic Empowerment Zone (EEZ), was awarded a $250,000 gran...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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