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The Premier today released details of costs for Government and Opposition personal staff for the last financial year.
The top earner was Owen Darrell, David Burt’s Chief of Staff, on $127,619 a year in 2019-20.
Mr Burt’s other expenses included a hou...
DATE: Dec 04, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A Government Senator claimed yesterday that the transfer of the L Frederick Wade International Airport to a public private partnership was directly connected to the financial struggles some Bermudians are facing now.
Owen Darrell, the junior minist...
DATE: Dec 02, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
If Kathy Lynn Simmons has her way, the image of civil servants as paper-pushing bureaucrats will be a thing of the past by 2023.
The Attorney General said that the Government aimed to be a paperless organisation in three years’ time, with all forms ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has pledged to support the UK Overseas Territories in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Johnson last week joined David Burt, the Premier, and representatives from other Overseas Territories at a Joint Mini...
DATE: Dec 01, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new limited duration test licence for digital asset businesses is expected to be introduced after legislation was passed in the House of Assembly last Friday.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said that research carried out by the Bermuda ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Government today announced it planned to change the Employment Act to bar long extensions to probation periods for employees.
Jason Howard said other alterations would clarify the definition of independent contractors and require employers to have m...
DATE: Nov 28, 2020
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Politics
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The Bermuda Post Office is moving forward with a public-private partnership with an international consolidation company for package forwarding and consolidation services from the US, it was revealed today.
Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabine...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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Politics
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Britain’s Overseas Territories minister has resigned after the Conservative Party government yesterday announced it was cutting its foreign aid budget.
Baroness Sugg, who was appointed Foreign Office Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Territories a...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Bermuda tennis lost a close friend with the passing on Monday of former New York mayor David Dinkins at the age of 93.
Mr Dinkins, whose wife Joyce died just over a month ago at the age of 89, is New York’s only black mayor to date, a post he hel...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
A proposed education authority must be free from government influence, a newly appointed independent senator said yesterday.
Speaking during the Senate debate on the Throne Speech, John Wight said: “I am pleased to see the creation of an education a...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
