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Students around the island have been getting revved up about motorcycle racing thanks to a community outreach initiative launched by the Bermuda Motorcycle Racing Club.
The club has been teaming up with schools to provide sessions for students to exp...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Government’s lawsuit against the Lahey Clinic points to e-mails between Ewart Brown and executives at the hospital as evidence of the alleged “corrupt enterprises” they took part in “at the expense of the Bermudian Government and people”....
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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Sam Strangeways
Family charities and business associations have welcomed the move by the Government to reform the structure of the payroll tax system.
In yesterday’s Budget, Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, told MPs that the Government was looking to bring tax...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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As the finance minister initially indicated, the Budget contains both good news and bad. The good news is that the tabled Bermuda payroll tax system is more progressive. This will be welcome relief for those in the lower-income categories who despera...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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I took time in the Senate this week to remind senators and Bermuda that soon after this government took office, it passed the Corporation of St George (Unesco World Heritage Fund and Levy) Act in 2013, which enables the town to collect a tax on fuel ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that while Bermuda’s public education system is going to need a lot more than a $2 million budget boost to bring it up to par, he was encouraged that funds for the department ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
A $25 million cut in the Bermuda Hospitals Board budget is not expected to affect services for the year ahead, but it will impact investments to improve the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute, general wing facilities and IT systems.
Bob Richards, the Mi...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
Lower-paid workers will get payroll tax cuts over two years, while big earners will be forced to dig deeper into their pockets.
Delivering a 2017-18 Budget yesterday aiming to spread the tax burden more fairly, finance minister Bob Richards also anno...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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A female motorcyclist was taken to hospital after a crash on Middle Road, Southampton, this afternoon.
The accident happened near the junction with Lighthouse Road at about 2.45pm.
Police said the woman, belived to be 19 years old, sustained injuries...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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A lack of cuts in spending to the Civil Service in this year’s Budget has proven a bone of contention for the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, with president John Wight asking where was the shared sacrifice.
In a statement released last evening, Mr Wigh...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan