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"Sailors in desperate straits"

Bermuda Sailing Association president Tim Patton said the sport would be unsustainable in its current form if the funding figures released in last week’s Budget proved correct. According to the Department of Youth and Sport, sailing’s grant is estima...
Feb 25, 2011
Budget

"Move to lower overtime within the bus service"

Budget reductions to the Department of Public Transportation will result in the financial equivalent to taxpayers of nine fewer full-time drivers. However, Transportation Minister Terry Lister said that due to rescheduling the bus service to limit ov...
Feb 24, 2011
Budget

"Hospital subsidies are projected to top $100m"

Hospital subsidies are projected to have risen by 17 percent last year due to long term patients and high utilisation of health care services. In 2010 the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) estimated that subsidies for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (...
Feb 24, 2011
Budget

"Revenue from parking fines expected to double"

Government expects a 100 percent increase in revenue from parking tickets on stationary vehicles next year, but a 35 percent drop in revenue from moving traffic fines. The Budget book shows Government expects $1.5 million to pour into its coffers fro...
Feb 24, 2011
Other

"Big turnout as Premier and Cabinet meet public"

Hundreds of people attended a public meeting to hear Cabinet Ministers quizzed on the annual Budget last night. International business (IB), tourism, pensions, welfare, illegal workers and Ministers’ salaries were some of the issues which came up at ...
Feb 24, 2011
Budget

"Efficiency improves at Planning Department"

Efforts to improve efficiency at the Department of Planning have resulted in more applications being processed quicker. According to output measures listed in the Budget book 170 applications around 26 percent of all the applications received by the ...
Feb 24, 2011
Budget

"Budget cuts to hit wages and training at Regiment"

More than $1 million in budget cuts at the Bermuda Regiment will hit both local training operations and wages. According to the Budget, released on Friday, total budgeted wages at the Regiment are expected to fall from $2.9 million in 2010/11 to $1.7...
Feb 24, 2011
Other

"Visiting MP keen to see British and Bermuda flags together"

The Union Flag should once again flutter on Front Street but alongside the Bermuda flag. That’s the view of a British MP with an interest in the Overseas Territories who visited the Island this week. Andrew Rosindell came to Bermuda on a fact-finding...
Feb 24, 2011
Politics

"BDA/UBP merger talks hit a brick wall"

Opposition merger talks have hit a brick wall with the two sides arguing over the role of the United Bermuda Party’s top level executives. The UBP, which has nine MPs to the Bermuda Democratic Alliance’s three, is said to want greater representation ...
Feb 23, 2011
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