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Fourteen of the Island's charities have been chosen to receive grants from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation.
The organisations, though varied in their avenues of help and support to the community, all share the common trend of improving the quality of ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bjorn Moller, chief executive officer of Bermuda-based shipowner Teekay Corp., expects rates to transport oil to be weak until the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which pumps about 40 percent of the world's crude...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Opposition MPs Mark Pettingill and Darius Tucker have been suspended from the Shadow Cabinet for failing to vote for a motion of no confidence in Premier Ewart Brown's Government.
The pair — who defied a three-line whip by not backing the doomed moti...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown and his entourage spent $320,000 of taxpayers' cash on trips in the last fiscal year.
Dr. Brown and his team spent $53,000 on ground transport alone — including $16,000 splashed out solely by Dr. Brown travelling around Washington...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Sacha Cecily Simpson, 22, graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Social Science, with honours, with a concentration in Sociology.
Ms. Simpson will be heading to Seneca College in Toronto, Canada in September to pursue a certificat...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) — Precious Shipping Pcl, Thailand's largest shipping company by market value, plans to find replacements for vessels it has sold from the second half of the year, when it expects prices to decline.
"We'd like to replace whatever...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Not enough assistance is being provided to rehabilitate inmates, according to the Parole Board.
Members say more substance abuse and sexual offenders programmes are needed, as well as greater efforts in finding prisoners employment and accommodation....
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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PLP MP Neletha Butterfield has been handed the role of Minister of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, taking Dale Butler's Cabinet position following his unexpected resignation days ago.
Ms Butterfield was sworn in at Government House yesterday by Go...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board has hired a Canadian consultancy firm to advise on the public-private partnership aspect of the planned $315 million redevelopment of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH).
Pending Immigration approval, Stantec Cons...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Dr. Brown is stuck in the past
June 22, 2009
Dear Sir,
How pathetic that our so 'Honourable' Premier Brown felt the need for a phalanx of policemen to surround him on his departure from the House of Assembly last Friday. Clearly he wasn't "feeling th...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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