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When Dr. Duranda Greene began working at the Bermuda College as a lecturer more than 20 years ago, she had no idea that one day she would be in charge of Bermuda’s only institution of higher learning.
Next year, however, the 43-year-old will become t...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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A Bill that will make it compulsory for accountants serving the Government to be members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bermuda has been tabled in Parliament.
The new amendment would end the exclusion to membership of the ICAB that has ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Urgent action needs to be taken in the light of a ?magnitude? of frauds within a Government department, a watchdog?s report has strongly recommended.
A risk assessment and analysis of the Accountant General?s Department needs to be set up immediately...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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A giant moth has sprung to life in Bermuda a year after it arrived as an unidentified cocoon attached to a batch of imported Christmas trees.
It has taken a full 12 months for the huge moth to end its lengthy spell of metamorphosis into a fully-fledg...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Measures to modernise Bermuda's Customs laws will be held back due to delays introducing a hi-tech new system to Customs' computers.
Under the Customs Tariff Act, Bermuda will adopt a "harmonised" international tariff system which is used in countrie...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Attempts by two Government ministers to interfere with the workings of a parliamentary watchdog group that shone a spotlight on the spending of public money by Bermuda College President Charles Green was halted after a tough line was taken by the Opp...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Hundreds of students and political figures will today be discussing ways to tackle global warming at an event at the new Berkeley Institute.
Former US Vice President Al Gore's documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' will be screened in front of 350 socia...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Here is a first look at what a proposed Ritz Carlton hotel in the heart of Hamilton's international business quarter is expected to look like once completed.
Ground-breaking for the multi-million dollar project is anticipated to begin in the first fe...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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One December day more than 30 years ago, the disappointment of a group of disabled youngsters who missed out on a scramble for candy thrown out by Santa Claus at the Flag Pole provided the inspiration for an annual Christmas party for special needs y...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Scott Neil
When Dr. Duranda Greene began working at the Bermuda College as a lecturer more than 20 years ago, she had no idea that one day she would be in charge of Bermuda?s only institution of higher learning.
Next year, however, the 43-year-old will become t...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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