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Seniors are seeing a 1.4 per cent increase in their contributory pension benefits this month, backdated to August of last year.
The increased payout, which is in line with inflation, would normally trigger a simultaneous increase in the mandatory con...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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Children as young as 11 are being exposed to pornography, parents in Bermuda have been warned.
Deana Puccio, a social-media expert and former New York court prosecutor, said mothers could not pretend their own sons were not affected.
Ms Puccio told T...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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A schoolmate’s good deed inspired a ten-year-old girl to help a charity.
Alaysia Glasford, a primary 6 pupil at Paget Primary School, handed $340 collected instead of Christmas gifts to the Bermuda Society for the Blind on Tuesday.
She said: “Every t...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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Cabinet Office minister Walton Brown revealed yesterday that the Government has not found the money for a Commission of Inquiry into “land grabs” and property theft, nor has it asked Britain to pay for one.
Mr Brown, who first proposed an inquiry and...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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Sam Strangeways
First, a correction. It seems that most wine judges and critics now have apps that scan the world for the use of their name and recently one in London pointed out that I had erred in referring to him as a master of wine (he had taken the exams, but n...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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QuoVadis, a technology company launched in Bermuda 20 years ago, has been sold to an American firm for $45 million.
The proposed takeover by DigiCert was announced in November and yesterday the companies confirmed the deal had closed.
DigiCert acquir...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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A flight of Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets touched down at the airport yesterday.
A spokeswoman for airport operators Skyport said the visit by the four jets was “a routine stop”.
The Typhoons were accompanied by a Voyager Airbus 330 tanker/tra...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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Gerald Simons has retired as chairman of the board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, and will be succeeded by Jeremy Cox.
Other departures from the board are deputy chairman Allan Marshall and Peter Hardy.
Mr Simons has served on the board of the BM...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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Employment income declined by 1.4 per cent, and the value of imports fell 15.8 per cent in the second quarter of last year.
However, economic data also showed that more Bermudians were employed in the hotel industry at the end of April last year when...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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