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A failed sports centre could still be a success if more public money was spent on it, a former MP who led the project in its early years said yesterday.
Walter Lister told The Royal Gazette the financial collapse of the Sandys 360 sports centre and p...
DATE: Mar 23, 2018
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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 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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Gaming regulators have raised concerns about the prospect of Bermuda adopting a cashless system for its casinos — echoing criticism by a problem gambling expert.
Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling in the Unite...
DATE: Sep 22, 2017
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Preserve Marriage’s reinstatement as a charity has reignited questions over its funding, but Bermuda’s laws do not require the information to be disclosed.
The group, which is against same-sex marriage and civil unions, has never revealed its financi...
DATE: Sep 02, 2017
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Same-Sex Marriage
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Sam Strangeways
If voters want a succinct definition of good governance, they can look no farther than the platforms of the One Bermuda Alliance and the Progressive Labour Party.
The ruling party views it as a “system of governance that builds transparency and accou...
DATE: Jul 17, 2017
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Pembroke West Central could be one of the seats that swings the election on July 18, with the incumbent MP David Burt having a majority of less than 100.
The Progressive Labour Party leader is going head-to-head with the One Bermuda Alliance’s Nick K...
DATE: Jul 07, 2017
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Sam Strangeways
The two candidates vying for the seat of Pembroke West Central appear to have much in common: both are highly educated, dynamic young men in their thirties who run businesses and have the energy to spend their spare time knocking on doors in their co...
DATE: Jul 07, 2017
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A charity born almost a century ago to help “needy little ones” announced yesterday that it would close and, in doing so, would give its headquarters to another organisation which works to strengthen Bermuda’s families.
The Sunshine League said it wa...
DATE: Apr 20, 2017
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