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Government slashed grants and contributions to a number of organisations in the recently unveiled 2014/15 Budget.
According to the 2014/15 Budget, Government intends to spend $293.7 million in grants and contributions in the coming year — $23 million...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
SYDNEY (Reuters) — The world’s top economies agreed on Sunday to develop stricter rules on cross-border taxation to close loopholes that have allowed multinationals such as Starbucks Corp, Google Inc, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc to avoid paying taxe...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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The final casualty of the War of 1812 was remembered in a ceremony in St George’s this weekend almost 200 years after his death.
The annual Midshipman Dale ceremony, held on Saturday, marked the 199th anniversary of the American sailor’s death in St ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Single mother juggles pursing a Master’s Degree and raising a six-year-old daughter and her teenaged brother
By Nadia Arandjelovic
When Christia Swan became pregnant with her daughter, Sakairi, at age 19 her dreams of completing a university degree w...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Pembroke Hamilton Club has been given until the end of the month to pay off a $1.2 million loan from the Bermuda Industrial Union, club sources have revealed.
In 2001, the BIU loaned PHC the monies to finance resurfacing of the playing field and inst...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Colin Thompson
When Pulitzer prize winning photographer David Turnley lectures at the Bermuda National Gallery next month he may look a little familiar. That’s because his identical twin brother, Peter, also one of the world’s top photographers, lectured at the BNG...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Decriminalisation of drugs would benefit Bermuda, but will not end the violence, according to US cop-turned-campaigner Jack Cole.
Mr Cole, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), is on the Island this week to speak with the public a...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government paid out $150,000 as a “trade off” to the Bermuda National Trust, in order to break its 99-year lease for the West End’s historic Springfield House.
Although an estimated $750,000 had been paid by Government into refurbishing the rundown s...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A power outage caused by this morning’s torrential rains brought business to a standstill for some retailers on Front Street.
Electricity was cut at around 10.15am after a transformer located outside the AS Cooper store was flooded.
Although Belco en...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Over 25 feature-length and short films, including three which are have been nominated for an Oscar, will be shown in the 17th annual Bermuda International Film Festival.
The Festival runs from March 21 to 27 at the Liberty Theatre.
This year’s progr...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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