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TN Tatem Middle School is not in need of demolition because of mould, the House of Assembly heard today.
Boxer Nikki Bascome is running a boxing gym in one of the mould-free buildings, while other licensed activities include a cooking class.
Lieutena...
DATE: Feb 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Young people who get too old for the island’s care system could soon be supported by a halfway house to help them deal with the move into adulthood.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs: “In the 2020-21 year, a transitional living regi...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The decades-old 60:40 rule designed to guarantee Bermudian majority ownership of companies is to be axed and no new taxes will be imposed.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said in his Budget Statement that the 60:40 numbers would be reverse...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Cash will be invested in information technology to boost government efficiency, the finance minister pledged yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson made several references to the need for more effective ways of working in his Budget speech.
He told the House of...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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The Government plans to spend $19.8 million more than it takes in over the next 12 months, which will push the country’s total debt to almost $2.68 billion.
Interest payments will amount to $121.4 million in the 2020-21 financial year, about $332,600...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities.
More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed.
Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments.
Mr E...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech.
He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed.
Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”.
The senior economics lecturer at Ber...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A Bill promoting Bermuda as a “landing hub for transatlantic submarine cables” carrying internet and telecommunications has won approval from both parties in the House of Assembly.
Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Friday that the “one-stop s...
DATE: Feb 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell