7495 results returned for search: "" category ("Politics" AND "News")
MPs will today debate plans to give Bermuda Monetary Authority power to impose penalties of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
BMA will also be able to censure an institution publicly, and ban it from providing certain services or publish information,...
DATE: Jul 20, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Prison inmates allowed out on work release should be electronically monitored in certain circumstances, according to a One Bermuda Alliance senator.
Shadow Families Minister Toni Daniels questioned why authorities did not notify the public sooner whe...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
“Seamen” in Bermuda are now known as “seafarers” — and rules for their pay, food and medical care by ship owners have been tightened, under a Bill approved in the Senate.
Senators anticipated extra revenue for the Island, through inspection and certi...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Public Works Minister Michael Weeks pleaded with people to properly dispose of their waste as he reminded them of punishments for illegal dumping.
Mr Weeks held a press conference at Aeolia Drive in Devonshire to complain about the frequent discardin...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Electronic software taken up by Government last November has resulted in speedier payments to vendors, according to Junior Finance Minister David Burt.
Government sent out 47,451 payments between March 1 and May 31 this year, Senator Burt told the Up...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
A “gap in the system” pointed out by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner has been amended by the Senate.
Attorney General Kim Wilson joked that her presentation of the Bail Amendment Act, 2012 “may perhaps be the shortest brief in history”, adding: “T...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
Pledging to take aim at gang leaders and stamp out “the terrorists in our midst”, the Senate approved get-tough legislation aspiring to eliminate gang activity by the end of 2015.
The Criminal Code Amendment Act 2012 also represents “the first time w...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Progressive Labour Party is to hold a public meeting aimed at strengthening the community.
Government Ministers and representatives from various helping agencies will speak tonight at the 7.30pm forum at Devonshire Recreation Club.
Families Minis...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
Opposition MP Louise Jackson last night urged Bermuda Hospitals Board to explain why its chief of staff was on administrative leave.
Dr Donald Thomas, who joined BHB in 2007, was placed on leave on Thursday, as revealed in Saturday's edition of The R...
DATE: Jul 17, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Transport Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin mocked Transport Minister Walter Roban for blaming the poor state of Bermuda’s ferries on salty water.
“The last I knew Bermuda is in the Atlantic, in a salty ocean,” the Paget West MP told the House ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2012
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
