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Only 15 companies have applied for recognition as good corporate citizens despite significant work permit benefits being announced last year for those who successfully apply for the standing.
Tighter term limits on work permits were announced last ye...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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Bermuda participated in what is being termed a "historic" Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in Canada recently.
The conference, which was held from August 30 to September 9, voted to amend the CPA's constitution to formally recognise the...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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Immigration Director Rozy Azhar said those companies seeking good corporate citizen (GCC) status should consistently exercise best practices including:
n Actively, attracting, recruiting and training Bermudians.
n Providing training programmes and op...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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Efforts to seize property believed to be the proceeds of Kirk Roberts? drug dealing stalled yesterday when Chief Justice Richard Ground gave the convicted drug smuggler another month to prove that the assets were legitimately acquired.
Roberts, who w...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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Hamilton commuters are in for a rude shock this month with the closure of a section of Elliott Street car park and the banning of long-term stays at the City Hall car park.
From Monday, City Hall car park will be totally restricted to three-hour park...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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Government will be receiving its stockpile of flu vaccine on October 4, and it is not expected that there will be a shortage this year.
And in the US, the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) is recommending annual flu shots for healthy children six mont...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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Bermuda's Financial Services Academy, which provides entry level training for the financial services industry, is up and running.
Nine students began a four-week course of training this week ? all of them have graduated from high school but are explo...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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The National Drug Commission has sounded the alarm about worrying levels of inhalant use among senior school children.
The survey, done by the NDC in October last year, found that 8.2 percent of 12 to 18 year olds had used inhalants.
NDC research off...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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A three-man reconnaissance team from the Bermuda Regiment arrived in the Cayman Islands yesterday to scope out the Hurricane-hit archipelago for further aid.
Majors William White, Duncan Gregory and Herman Eve went after a request from the Cayman Gov...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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A unique Bermuda fern, Governor Laffan's fern, extinct for a century, might now have a new lease on life thanks to conservationists in the US, Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield said yesterday.
At the Tulo Valley Government plant nursery, Ms Bu...
DATE: Sep 23, 2004
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