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The Auditor General plans to finish 60 outstanding reports within the next 10 months.
Heather Matthews said additional staff and hard work would enable them to start 2012 with a clean slate.
“We are mandated to get out statutory reports first and tha...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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Former Premier Dr Ewart Brown should answer questions about the handling of the controversial TCD project, which took place under his watch as Transport Minister, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance said yesterday.
The project built a new Transport Contr...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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The Auditor General believes former Cabinet Secretary Marc Telemaque should be fined for disregarding Government’s rules in the controversial TCD project.
Mr Telemaque did not comply with the financial rules and did not follow a Cabinet decision to p...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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Former Regiment commanding officer Edward Lamb said yesterday he used the “full brunt of the law” to discipline a soldier who assaulted another soldier in Grenada in 2005.
The private was given 56 days in military prison after an incident described b...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Auditor General said Government could have another qualified audit for the current fiscal year.
A week ago Bermuda’s Consolidated Fund was released for the previous fiscal year, ending March 31, 2010.
Auditor General Heather Matthews gave it a qu...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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The United Bermuda Party says Kim Swan will speak “when he is ready” as he maintained his silence on the merger likely to end his spell as Opposition leader.
When The Royal Gazette visited his St George’s West constituency yesterday, many residents s...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda’s rules against performance enhancing drugs in sport will be tightened by laws expected to pass through the House of Assembly today.
The Bermuda Sport Anti-Doping Authority (BSADA) will be formally set up through the Anti-Doping in Sport Act,...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Questions have been raised as to whether the Bermuda Regiment properly handled a soldier-on-soldier assault after it was described in court this week as an attempted knifepoint rape.
Regiment commanding officer (CO) Brian Gonsalves told a Supreme Cou...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Regiment should not have tried to hush-up the attempted rape of a soldier in Grenada, according to a conscript who was on the 2005 hurricane-relief trip.
The man, who asked not to be named, told The Royal Gazette he was “disgusted” that the R...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Accountant General claims she was pressured by Ministry of Transport officials to approve a sole tender contract over the controversial TCD construction project.
The Public Accounts Committee also heard TCD could save Government approximately $1...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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