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A 'Good Samaritan' who employed a convicted conwoman on prison work release faced near-ruin after she stole more than $24,000 from her.
Kind-hearted Doris Goodman, 74, saw one of her businesses collapse after career fraudster Phyllis Marva Iona Soare...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Total Government revenue for 2006/07 is estimated at $856 million ? $21 million more than the original projection.
Current programme expenditure for 2006/07 is $822 million ? $16 million, or two percent, above the original estimate.
The Ministry of F...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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High earners will see more tax lopped from their pay cheques from this spring, Finance Minister Paula Cox announced yesterday.
Anyone with a top line of more than $235,000 will feel the pinch of a salary cap increase in payroll tax for the coming fin...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Supplying Bermuda with a sustainable source of water is exactly what the water truckers have been asking for and is what the Budget has made a priority.
The Ministry of Works and Engineering has a Budget of $74 million and one of its priorities is th...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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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 17, 2007
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Expansion of the library system, revision of the 1981 Human Rights Act and a focus on the cultural heritage of the North Hamilton Area are all receiving part of a $13m budget.
The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs? budget will focus on a p...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Shadow Minister for Finance Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last night claimed the Government was overspending and was still failing to deal with the biggest crisis on the Island — housing.
Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin was responding to the Budget set out by Finance ...
DATE: Feb 17, 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 17, 2007
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The CMIT Programme includes housing as a benefit of the programme. The goal of CMIT is to transition families from a level of dependence towards independence of the Government system via intensive supportive services. Over the course of the coming ye...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Government has set aside $1.5 million to inspect public schools in the wake of the mould crisis at CedarBridge Academy.
About $4 million was needed last year to clean up the school which was closed when an inspection revealed it was riddled with moul...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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