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Essential service debate delayed

Government has put on hold controversial plans to reclassify public transport services as “essential”. The Labour Relations Amendment Act 2014 was scheduled to get its second reading in the House of Assembly today, in what will be the final sitting o...
Mar 21, 2014
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May 31 is last day to renew boats and mooring licences

Boat and mooring owners have been warned by the Department of Marine and Ports that licences are set to expire on May 31, with renewals commencing April 1. A spokeswoman for the department said that this year it would not be posting renewal notices a...
Mar 21, 2014
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Furbert hits out after Brit is appointed golf director

Shadow Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert has lashed out over the appointment of Brit Andrew Brooks as the Island’s new director of golf sales and marketing. Brooks, who was formerly golf director at Port Royal, has been charged by Bermuda Tourism Author...
Mar 21, 2014
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National Intelligence Agency needed

The Island needs its own National Intelligence Agency to take on organised crime and “prolific priority offenders”, according to the independent National Security and Defence Review released on Friday. And the Department of Corrections has issues req...
Mar 21, 2014
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National Service scheme a backward step, says Marshall

Introducing a National Service scheme in which every young person would have to sign up has been condemned as a backward step towards slavery by one pressure group. And Bermudians Against the Draft (BAD) is urging those who may be enrolled in any fut...
Mar 20, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Not advocating for National Service scheme, but we would support it

19 March 2014 Dear Sir We write to clarify our position on mandatory service in the Bermuda Regiment and particularly, the subject of National Service. While national service did come up during the interview that led to a story on your front page a f...
Mar 20, 2014
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Dismay at budget cuts to social programmes

Sweeping budget cuts across the Ministry of Community, Culture and Sport have been decried as “uncaring” by the Progressive Labour Party. Shadow Minister Michael Weeks also questioned how the Mirrors youth development programme, which Government seek...
Mar 20, 2014
Opinion Writer

We need to settle down

The political waters in Bermuda have become so muddy that it is troubling to a good portion of the electorate, since key Government objectives have become obscured in murky political posturing that seems to detract from what is really needed to tac...
Mar 19, 2014
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Optimism that Grand Atlantic solution is near

The Bermuda Housing Corporation is currently in “sensitive discussions with enthusiastic, interested investors” for the Grand Atlantic Development. Just one unit was sold at the Warwick site, criticised as a “white elephant” after consumers failed to...
Mar 18, 2014
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Govt to review its stock of buildings

Government’s ageing complement of buildings are to be reviewed over the year ahead — and some may even be demolished, according to Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin. With the exception of the new Dame Lois Browne Evans Building, the stock...
Mar 18, 2014
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MP takes Govt to task on Victoria and Albert Rows

Shadow Minister of Community Affairs Michael Weeks has attacked the Government for its handling of Victoria and Albert Rows and the new housing development being erected in the area. The former PLP government announced in 2010 that it intended to dem...
Mar 17, 2014
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