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Government is getting out of the real estate business, Community Development Minister Wayne Scott told the House of Assembly yesterday.
This as legislators on both sides of the House acknowledged the failure of the Grand Atlantic development and a ch...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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The Department of Tourism’s $27.3 million budget allocation came in for heavy criticism yesterday due to the absence of funding for the new Tourism Board.
Former Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert charged the new Minister failed to explain why funds were...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Opposition MP Rolfe Commission welcomes confirmation and calls on Govt to get private sector buy-in
By Jonathan Bell
Dropping the Job Corps initiative would leave Bermuda with another lost generation, warned Shadow Workforce Development Minister Rolf...
DATE: Mar 18, 2013
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The Progressive Labour Party is strongly positioned to take back Government, according to MP Rolfe Commissiong.
But he called the PLP’s December 17 loss to the One Bermuda Alliance “heartbreaking”.
“After getting to the point of grabbing the holy gra...
DATE: Mar 18, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Declaration comes as $100 million in supplementary budget estimates are presented to Parliament
By Ayo Johnson
Finance Minister Bob Richards tabled close to $100 million of supplementary budget estimates in the House of Assembly yesterday.
But the ne...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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House Speaker Randolph Horton has demanded that parliamentarians respect the rules regarding conduct during debates.
Mr Horton said he’d met with One Bermuda Alliance Public Works Minister Trevor Moniz, Opposition Leader Marc Bean and Deputy Leader o...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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Government’s claim that it is cracking down on crime has been met with a lukewarm response from the Opposition.
Shadow Public Safety Minister Michael Scott argued that, while planned stiffer penalties for some crimes may deter would-be offenders, the...
DATE: Mar 13, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Opposition MPs yesterday called on Government to reverse course on its scholarship funding.
Speaking for the Education Minister in the budget debate, Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons said that Government has decided to restrict the annual...
DATE: Mar 12, 2013
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Shadow Community Minister Michael Weeks has called for a change in House of Assembly procedure to allow fair say.
The Progressive Labour Party MP is smarting from the “debacle” that denied him a chance to debate department heads with Community and Cu...
DATE: Mar 12, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government’s payroll tax holiday for new Bermudian hires was approved by parliament last night but not before the Opposition decried the proposal as half baked, while applauding the Government for keeping an election promise.
As of April 1, employers...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
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