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Repair work on Palmetto Road should be completed in a matter of months, according to Public Works Minister Craig Cannonier.
Responding to complaints about the lack of progress by area MP Michael Weeks, Mr Cannonier said work to gunite the cliff has b...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Senator Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, last night hit back at claims that the Bermuda Government had spent nearly $1.5 million in legal fees to seek guidance on how to void the Hamilton Waterfront lease.
Opposition Senator Marc Daniels h...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015
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Politics
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Derrick Burgess, the former Deputy Leader of the Progressive Labour Party, has launched a scathing attack on both his and his party’s critics.
The Member of Parliament for Hamilton East lashed out at the end of Friday’s House of Assembly session over...
DATE: Mar 09, 2015
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Politics
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The Progressive Labour Party last night demanded answers as to why the Bermuda Government allegedly spent nearly $1.5 million in legal fees to seek guidance on how to void the Hamilton Waterfront lease.
Opposition Senator Marc Daniels described the f...
DATE: Mar 09, 2015
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Politics
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Bermuda’s failure to meet its own goals for spending cuts is “unfortunate” and “will not play out well with rating agencies and our creditors”, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development.
Under the middle-term expenditure frame...
DATE: Mar 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Opposition’s record in government was assailed in Parliament by Premier Michael Dunkley after the One Bermuda Alliance was condemned as lacking in transparency and accountability.
“Nonsense — arrant nonsense,” Mr Dunkley said in an exchange durin...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
At least half of the jobs being created through the development of the Pink Beach Hotel will be promised to Bermudians, according to developer Sardis.
There will be an estimated between 80 and 100 construction jobs and about 50 other jobs once the ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Government overspent by almost $23 million across seven ministries in the 2014-15 fiscal year, according to supplemental estimates tabled this morning in the House of Assembly.
The top “offender” was financial assistance, at $5.6 million, under the M...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Opposition Leader Marc Bean has decried the One Bermuda Alliance’s record of transparency, calling it “elusive, more so than any other time in the history of modern government in Bermuda”.
The broadside came at the close of Premier Michael Dunkley’s ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
One Bermuda Alliance backbencher Mark Pettingill likened the Opposition’s Reply to the Budget to a children’s television show, while the Opposition deemed Government’s policy uncaring and overly reliant on taxation.
“Our philosophies are clearly diff...
DATE: Feb 28, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell