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Accountant Raymond Jones has been named director of the new Government department of economic development.
Mr. Jones, a certified public accountant, will take up the post on December 4 after spending seven years at the Bermuda Economic Development C...
DATE: Nov 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
Last month's General Election cost the taxpayer almost $700,000, it has been revealed.
But Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, highlighted that the figure was much less than critics had predicted after Premier David Burt had called the snap p...
DATE: Nov 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda faces “unprecedented” problems in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Leader of the Opposition warned today.
Cole Simons said: “Honestly, the next few years will be the toughest Bermuda has faced and the people are worried.“
Mr Simons said...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
An integrated service model for healthcare is expected to reduce duplication and increase efficiency, the health minister said today.
Kim Wilson added that the plan to create universal health coverage would develop over “a number of years”.
She told ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Government’s predicted Budget deficit of $19.8 million has ballooned to $295 million, the finance minister revealed today.
Curtis Dickinson said the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to cost Government hundreds of millions of dollars and present Be...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Royal Gazette, in conjunction with the Washington Post News Service and Bloomberg News, will be livestreaming Election Night 2020.
The Washington Post’s Libby Casey will anchor prime-time coverage with a Washington Post Special Report as ...
DATE: Nov 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
RG Live
Plans to support children, seniors and vulnerable people were outlined yesterday when the Government vowed to “drive a movement of change” for Bermuda.
John Rankin, the Governor, said that there will also be help for those leaving the public care sys...
DATE: Nov 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
This morning the Governor will read the Speech from the Throne setting out the Government’s legislative agenda.
In recognition of the 400th anniversary of the first General Assembly being established in Bermuda in 1620, the Convening of the Legislatu...
DATE: Nov 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
RG Live
The deluge of disinformation after the election has hammered home a reality that ought to have been obvious all along: The President is the problem.
Donald Trump did the country the favour of explaining ahead of time how he planned to allege the rigg...
DATE: Nov 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Ernest Peets is to be a senator and the Government Leader in the Upper House, it was revealed tonight.
David Burt, the Premier, said he was “extremely pleased that Dr Peets has accepted this appointment”.
Dr Peets is a certified family therapist, an...
DATE: Nov 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell