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Restaurants are “lacking the Bermuda element” as overseas wait staff don’t offer the same friendly and welcoming service, according to Government backbencher Dennis Lister.
Mr Lister told the House of Assembly that tourists weren’t being encouraged t...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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The doom and gloom of the economic downturn has lead to a vast array of innovative opportunities, according to Business Development and Tourism Minister Patrice Minors.
Ms Minors told the House of Assembly that people were coming up with “existing, r...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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Tourism Minister Patrice Minors has sung the praises of sports tourism for attracting thousands of visitors to our shores.
Ms Minors said that despite working with a reduced budget, the Department of Tourism continues to support existing events, as ...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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Out-of-work youngsters are to be asked to help spruce up Bermuda’s historic buildings in an attempt to move them off the wall and into jobs.
Plans for a new apprenticeship scheme to breathe life into some of the Island’s crumbling buildings were reve...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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The unemployed are to be given jobs cleaning up the Railway Trail in the hope that it will encourage more Bermudians to consider future careers in landscaping.
The Department of Parks is to provide out-of-work men and women with the horticultural sk...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda is suffering its most difficult economic period in at least half a century, according to Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley.
The One Bermuda Alliance politician, 53, told the Upper Chamber during a debate on poverty on Wednesday that he...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
VSB has asked Health Minister Zane DeSilva to retract comments he made in the House of Assembly about the radio station's coverage of the pharmaceuticals controversy.
Mr DeSilva delivered a ministerial statement on Friday in response to news stories ...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Householders will be banned from putting out their trash any earlier than 7.30pm on evenings before collection, under new regulations announced by Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess.
He told the House of Assembly that Government was taking a number of st...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A majority of voters disapprove of the way Premier Paula Cox is running the country, according to a new poll.
Fifty-one percent of people responding to the Mindmaps survey, carried out between June 26 and July 3, gave a negative rating of her perform...
DATE: Jul 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Some key workers will soon be exempt from work permits and able to get permanent residency for themselves, their spouses and their children, Premier Paula Cox announced yesterday.
Senior executives and those responsible for making decisions that are ...
DATE: Jul 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
