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Legislation to protect those with insurance policies and boost solar energy adoption were approved in the House on Friday.
The Insurance Amendment (Number 2) Act and the Electricity Amendment Act both garnered support from both sides of the House.
Da...
DATE: Jul 24, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Legislation designed to make it cheaper for property owners to register their title without a lawyer was passed in the Senate yesterday.
Vance Campbell, a Progressive Labour Party senator, said the Land Title Registration Amendment Act would “smoot...
DATE: Jul 24, 2018
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Politics
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The Government has been accused of “discriminatory” payroll tax reforms that will increase costs for small to medium businesses and “kill jobs”.
The attack came from the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance as the House of Assembly debated an amendment t...
DATE: Jul 24, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The number of births in Bermuda decreased in 2017 for the first time in three years.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, told the House of Assembly last Friday that there were 578 births in 2017, down from 591 in 2016. In 2015, the figure was...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A pilot project to provide members of the public with trash bins is in the pipeline.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works made the announcement during his Statement in the House of Assembly last Friday.
The trash-bin scheme w...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Repair work on schools this summer will cost an additional $3 million, the minister of public works said yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the works kicked off immediately after the end of the school year and were in “full swing”.
He s...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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“Enhanced security protocols” have uncovered contraband in the island’s Corrections facilities, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security.
Mr Caines added that a Corrections officer had sustained minor injuries as a result of a rec...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A commission to investigate the island’s history of “land grabs” could still take place years after it was controversially turned down.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, told The Royal Gazette that a Commission of Inquiry into the issue rem...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
David Burt, the Premier, took aim at the Opposition after an online report found the One Bermuda Alliance requested and received voter information in 2012.
Mr Burt said in the House of Assembly last Friday that the OBA should not make “foolish press ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Some of Bermuda’s lowest-paid workers could triple their wages within three years after a national living wage is introduced.
Economic experts, union officials and employers should decide on the living wage, to be implemented by 2021, according to a ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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