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The Opposition’s record in government was assailed in Parliament by Premier Michael Dunkley after the One Bermuda Alliance was condemned as lacking in transparency and accountability.
“Nonsense — arrant nonsense,” Mr Dunkley said in an exchange durin...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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Government is seeking a price tag for its water supply system at the West End, for a possible sale of the infrastructure to Watlington Waterworks.
That tentative deal was proposed under a 2010 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the company, wh...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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Check up on dog walkers before entrusting your pet to another person, a retired animal welfare officer has warned after being besieged by unleashed dogs in a public park.
The incident on Monday involved a dog walker at Shelly Bay Park, according to D...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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Government overspent by almost $23 million across seven ministries in the 2014-15 fiscal year, according to supplemental estimates tabled this morning in the House of Assembly.
The top “offender” was financial assistance, at $5.6 million, under the M...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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Bermuda has been treated “like a stepchild” with the appointment of Gitanjali Gutiérrez as the Island’s first information commissioner, over the preferred candidates chosen by the Bermuda Government in consultation with the Opposition.
Marc Bean, lea...
DATE: Mar 03, 2015
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Family Forum, a confidential support group for people facing difficult times in their lives, invited The Royal Gazette to sit in on its latest meeting for a look at how its members share their experiences.
One person speaks at a time and members leav...
DATE: Mar 03, 2015
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Opposition Leader Marc Bean has decried the One Bermuda Alliance’s record of transparency, calling it “elusive, more so than any other time in the history of modern government in Bermuda”.
The broadside came at the close of Premier Michael Dunkley’s ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2015
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Opposition Leader Marc Bean has accused Bob Richards, the Finance Minister, of making a “bad bet” by borrowing $800 million for the Island on an expectation of rising interest rates.
Those loans were approved by Parliament in 2013, with Mr Richards t...
DATE: Feb 28, 2015
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It has been one year and seven months since the Committee of 25 for Handicapped Children lost its status as a charity.
One of the Island’s oldest and most recognised charities, the organisation had failed to submit audited financials — and remains of...
DATE: Feb 28, 2015
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One Bermuda Alliance backbencher Mark Pettingill likened the Opposition’s Reply to the Budget to a children’s television show, while the Opposition deemed Government’s policy uncaring and overly reliant on taxation.
“Our philosophies are clearly diff...
DATE: Feb 28, 2015
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