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With the last feedback from local businesses accepted yesterday at Consumer Affairs, proposed changes to the Consumer Protection Act are now approaching final review.
Changes to the 1999 Act includes include barring the following:
Coercive inducement...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Premier Paula Cox last night said Bermuda needs to show it is tackling gun violence for the sake of international business and tourism.
Ms Cox said Saturday's double-shooting in St Monica's Road - coupled with the murder of Vaughan Allen in New ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Economist Robert Stewart says proposed pension increases for retired public sector workers, MPs and senators simply leave the average senior even further behind.The Royal Gazette yesterday.
The average benefit for retired civil servants, police,...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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The number of work permits issued in 2009 was 24 percent lower than the number issued in 2007.The Royal Gazette reported the number of active work permit holders in 2010 was eight percent lower than in 2009. There are 10,127 people on one- to fiv...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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Contracts will only be handed out through a consistent and fair bidding process, under new rules drawn up by Premier Paula Cox's administration.
Ms Cox yesterday said the new Procurement Office, under her personal watch, would provide transparency an...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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Premier Paula Cox has handed in her notice to her employer, global insurance organisation Ace.
The newly elected Premier, who is also Finance Minister, yesterday said her new duties would be all-consuming, and that she has submitted her three-mo...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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After Premier Paula Cox announced her picks for Cabinet,
The Royal Gazette took to the streets to find out what everyday Bermudians thought of the selections.
This paper asked ten random people their opinions on the new Cabinet and got a variet...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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Public figures this week expressed guarded optimism about the make up of the newly announced Cabinet.
While the Bermuda Teachers Union, said they were pleased to see someone with experience taking the Education portfolio, Environmentalist Stuart...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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New Tourism Minister Patrice Minors intends to review all of the contracts the Department of Tourism has with private companies — and she may scrap the Love Festival.The Royal Gazette that she "most definitely" planned to look at the value for mo...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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Defeated leadership candidate Dale Butler will focus on his constituency after bemoaning the "voice of the little man" was rejected at last Thursday night's Progressive Labour Party election.
Mr. Butler, who also missed out on a place in Cabinet, thr...
DATE: Nov 03, 2010
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