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The Bermuda Tourism Authority was “ready to learn more details” of government intentions on its future, the body’s chief executive said yesterday.
Kevin Dallas was speaking after the Budget Statement was delivered in the House of Assembly by Curtis D...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance delivering the Budget for 2020-21 at the House of Assembly today.
Here are the highlights from his speech:
• Programmes in the Department of Child and Family Services will receive an increase of $750,000. Som...
DATE: Feb 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Independent MPs are needed more than ever to break Bermuda’s two-party political deadlock, a former campaign adviser has warned.
Jen Pedro, who worked on independent candidate Christina Storey’s bid for the House of Assembly in the 2017 General Elect...
DATE: Feb 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The One Bermuda Alliance challenged whether David Burt misled the House of Assembly on Friday night.
The Premier accused the pressure group Patients 1st, which opposes the Government’s health plan 2020, of being “run by the insurance companies”.
The ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Governor John Rankin, along with the Deputy Governor Alison Crocket, was today pleased to receive at Government House the Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, Premier of the Turks & Caicos Islands, along with members of her Government.
The deleg...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities.
More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed.
Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments.
Mr E...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech.
He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Residents highlighted greater support for the underprivileged, seniors and people with mental health problems as areas for improvement as The Royal Gazette hit the streets of Hamilton to canvass views on the Progressive Labour Party’s performance in ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed.
Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”.
The senior economics lecturer at Ber...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter