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Government yesterday repeated its pledge to tackle the affordable homes shortage by insisting hundreds of houses would be built in the next year.
However, campaigners argued the crisis could only be eased by a ?paradigm shift? in the mindset of the p...
DATE: Feb 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) dipped 1.25 percent yesterday as shares of Butterfield Bank Ltd. and Belco Holdings Ltd. fell.
The vast majority of the day’s trading was concentrated on Butterfield Bank. A total of 11,921 shares chan...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — A larger-than-expected drop in housing starts gave Wall Street a narrowly mixed performance yesterday, but the Dow Jones industrials had their third straight record close after spending much of the session in a decline that lacked con...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Scenario: You aren’t feeling well. You mention to your friend that you need to make an appointment to see your doctor ... and your friend says, “Why don’t you try this doctor who flies in every month or so? He seems like a good guy!”Taking your frien...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Age Concern has welcomed a raft of measures in the Budget to help hard-pressed seniors.
The Budget promised a pension hike of about 4.5 percent, starting in August, while the annual allowance for prescription drugs goes up by $50 to $1,200 per annum ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Government plans to turn an eye on the sky in an attempt to establish a satellite services industry on the Island.
Finance Minister Paula Cox spelled out the proposal to build an “earth station” — a facility normally fitted with at least one large di...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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Union officials are calling for swift action to rebuild King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after nearly $140 million was allocated to the Ministry of Health in yesterday’s budget.
That cash includes a grant to Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) to carry ou...
DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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