110922 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "News")
Housing Minister Sen. David Burch yesterday accused Opposition Senator Gina Spence-Farmer of behaving in a manner towards squatters at the Club Med dormitory that “bordered on criminal”.
And he said if he had his choice she would have been arrested f...
DATE: Mar 10, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC) general manager Raymonde Dill was silent yesterday in the face of reports of massive payments of public money to contractors and allegations of corruption.
Mr. Dill called a Press conference yesterday but cancelled i...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Government has operated within budget every year, but one, since coming into power in November, 1998, Finance Minister Eugene Cox told his House of Assembly colleagues yesterday.
And the Country's debt, inherited from the former United Bermuda Party ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Businesses and government offices are not adhering to health and safety standards, according to initial results from a workplace poll.
Health Minister Nelson Bascome said health and safety committees had not been established in many workplaces and aw...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Construction workers have uncovered one of the largest, most impressive caves ever to be found in Bermuda, Environment Minister Dennis Lister told Parliament yesterday.
He said the significant cave formation was unearthed at the Wilkinson Quarry in H...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A deal is set to be struck on the thorny baselands issue with the US set to renounce a claim to the land while Bermuda gets a $11 million payoff.
The deal concludes years of negotiations between the American, British and Bermuda Governments over who ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
MPs passed a bill to set up an unemployment insurance fund this week.
Finance Minister Eugene Cox said the bill fulfilled a call he had made more than ten years previously when the PLP was in Opposition.
Government is to put in $1 million seed money ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Government's computer system has been hit by several viruses in the past, the Minister of Telecommunications and E-commerce Renee Webb revealed yesterday.
But new software was now in place to minimise these kind of security breaches, she said.
Ms Web...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A number of the Island's contracting bosses appear to be expanding their business interests with word emerging yesterday that there could soon be a new owner of Gorham's Ltd. and that SKB Coatings Ltd. was sold recently.
Zane DeSilva, of Island Const...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A proclamation from the steps of Parliament by Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday marked Bermuda's observation of International's Women's Day.
Ms Smith said the day is designated by the United Nations and is an initiative started more than twenty years...
DATE: Mar 09, 2002
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
