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A government backbencher has been appointed chairman of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation. Jache Adams, the MP for Pembroke West, was formerly the chairman of the board of trustees of the National Sports Centre. Mr Adams was embroiled in ...

A government backbencher has been replaced as the chairman of the National Sports Centre’s board of trustees after a row over a contract for solar power. Owen Darrell, a government senator, has taken over from Jache Adams, the Progressive Labour Part...

A funeral service was yesterday held for Olympic athlete and veteran broadcaster Mike Sharpe at the National Stadium in Devonshire. Mr Sharpe’s coffin – draped in the Olympic flag – was carried on a lap of honour around the track by fellow athletes a...

A car parking area at the National Sports Centre will be used to generate power. A planning department file said the planned “carport” solar array would be installed over a car parking area at the stadium. There would be 1,498 solar panels, each capa...

The installation of a solar panels at the National Sports Centre is moving ahead, despite controversy over how the contract was awarded. Ernest Peets, the minister for youth, culture and sport, recently visited the centre to inspect a new heat pump f...

About 2,000 people have received vaccine booster shots so far, the health minister said today. Kim Wilson added the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the National Sports Centre vaccine centres were administering boosters to people over the age o...

Three MPs apologised to the House of Assembly yesterday for comments they made two months ago. Neville Tyrrell and Christopher Famous, Progressive Labour Party backbenchers, and Craig Cannonier, the One Bermuda Alliance Shadow Minister for Public Wor...

Dear Sir, If my last letter regarding the questionable financial arrangements for the National Sport Centre’s solar panel project did not raise any alarm bells with the public, then maybe this will: Atlantic Energy Solutions Group Ltd is the contrac...

Dear Sir, The controversy over the solar panel project for the National Sports Centre seems to have dropped off the radar and the sports minister has assured us that nothing untoward has occurred with the contract, which was awarded to Atlantic Energ...

Financing for a controversial solar project at the National Sports Centre was approved by the NSC’s Board of Trustees in May, the sport minister reiterated at the Senate. In response to questions Ernest Peets, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Port,...

Government has confirmed that it is acting as guarantor for a controversial loan to fund an energy-saving project at the National Sports Centre. In the House of Assembly on Friday, Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, confirmed that Government had...

The Opposition is calling for an investigation into the funding of a controversial energy project at the National Sports Centre. At a press conference yesterday Craig Cannonier, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for public works, also called for an ...