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Newly-arrived foreign workers will soon have to pass an English test or face being booted out, Labour and Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess has revealed.
The test will apply to foreigners from non-English speaking countries.
He told the House of A...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Government is to make businesses provide an employment profile to find out if their hiring practices are skewed against Bermudians.
Labour and Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess said there had been a large amount of complaints from locals losing ou...
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The Corrections Department paid out a total of $440,000 in legal settlements last year relating to the death in custody of Steven Mansfield (Pepe) Dill and the unlawful dismissal of Assistant Commissioner Randall Woolridge.
Father-of-two Mr. Dill, 41...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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A bid to introduce flights from Munich to Bermuda proved a "failure" despite Government spending more than $1.5 million on the scheme, the Premier has admitted.
Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly: "This was one of our unsuccessful ventures in an ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Wachovia chairman and chief executive Ken Thompson received compensation the company valued at nearly $18.4 million in 2006, according to a regulatory filing made on Friday.Thompson, 56, received $1.09 million in salary, $5.15 millio...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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A burglar stole a black plasma television after breaking into a home on St. Anne's Road, Southampton, on Friday.
The break-in occurred between 7.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Police are also investigating the theft of a red and black Honda generator during a...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Julian Hall once memorably described Sen. David Burch as a slow motion public relations train wreck and on Friday, Sen. Burch once again proved Mr. Hall right.
In a bad tempered debate with Opposition Sen. Gina Spence Farmer, the Housing and Public S...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Three Bermuda films are among the 29 short films representing 16 countries which have been selected to screen in competition at this year’s Bermuda International Film Festival, which begins on Friday.
The 29 competition shorts are eligible for the ‘M...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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A team from Bermuda High School has won the first Bermuda Debate Society schools’ debate.
The two-week competition ended with a final debate at City Hall in Hamilton when Aliyyah Ahad, Annefa Burke, Catherine Campbell, Katryn Smith and Christie O’Doh...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton angrily denounced an Opposition Minister who suggested mould had re-emerged at CedarBridge Academy.
The comments were made during a debate on the education budget, in which the total cost of cleaning up last year’s env...
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