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More than half a million dollars was spent on salaries for permanent and contract staff at the failed sports centre Sandys 360 in its final year of operation, the organisation’s unaudited financial statement has revealed.
The centre paid $404,928 in ...
DATE: Mar 21, 2018
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The Government’s attempt to become a top financial technology centre could be threatened by its attitude to foreign workers and “closed-minded” view of gay marriage, an Opposition senator warned yesterday.
Andrew Simons told the Upper Chamber during ...
DATE: Mar 15, 2018
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A senior citizen who contested two wills drawn up for her father when she believes he was suffering from dementia now faces losing everything she owns to pay for the legal battle.
Retired government worker Elaine Charles, 70, told The Royal Gazette s...
DATE: Mar 09, 2018
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The construction firm that built the failed Sandys 360 sports centre is still owed more than $1 million almost nine years after work was completed.
BCM McAlpine was never paid in full after being hired for the $10 million job and its smaller subcontr...
DATE: Mar 02, 2018
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Taxpayers have forked out at least $5.3 million on the failed Sandys 360 facility, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The now-shuttered sports centre, which the Government plans to buy for $1 million and renovate for an as-yet-unknown sum, was funded with...
DATE: Feb 28, 2018
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A controversial multimillion-dollar healthcare contract axed by former premier Paula Cox is back in the spotlight in the Government’s lawsuit against the Lahey Clinic.
Lawyers involved in the civil case are examining the deal that Kurron Shares of Am...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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Kurron Shares of America first made headlines in Bermuda in March 2003 when it was hired to conduct a study of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and what was St Brendan’s Hospital, now the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute.
Nelson Bascome, then health ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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Overseas options are being explored to potentially handle Bermuda’s casino transactions, the new head of the gaming commission has revealed.
Cheryl-Ann Mapp told The Royal Gazette that the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission is seeking advice from its c...
DATE: Feb 21, 2018
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The Government of Bermuda is standing by claims that Ewart Brown conducted excessive and medically unnecessary scans on patients and paid “kickbacks” to scores of doctors on the island.
Lawyers representing the Progressive Labour Party government des...
DATE: Feb 14, 2018
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The Government of Bermuda is standing by claims that Ewart Brown conducted excessive and medically unnecessary scans on patients and paid “kickbacks” to scores of doctors on the island.
Lawyers representing the Progressive Labour Party government des...
DATE: Feb 14, 2018
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