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Those behind the community project say they have not given up hope of saving the failed sports centre

Government has abandoned plans to purchase the failed Sandys 360 sports centre, the House of Assembly heard yesterday morning. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said the purchase had been complicated by outstanding debt. ...

Legislation to introduce fixed penalties for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions is expected to be tabled in the House of Assembly this morning. The Government announced plans earlier this year to introduce on-the-spot fines for some offences related t...

A Government bid to buy a shuttered sports centre may be scrapped, the House of Assembly has heard. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said the $1 million sale was still budgeted and approved by the House, but questions had...

Two government agencies have been ordered to draw up a complete list of public grants handed to a failed sports centre. The checks by the Ministry of Finance and the Accountant-General’s Department must include the paper trail behind a double grant m...

A construction firm appealed to the Government to settle its unpaid bill topping $1 million for the Sandys 360 sports complex at the West End, an Opposition backbencher has revealed. Calling the failed gym a “black hole”, Trevor Moniz, a former publi...

Dear Sir, Your front-page article of July 26 states, “It was already known that two sums of $807,000 were paid to Sandys 360 that year, one of which was a duplicate payment made in error ...” What action has been taken to recover this overpayment and...

Public works minister Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch backed down yesterday on a pledge to withhold from taxpayers a financial report into a publicly funded failed sports centre. Colonel Burch released a redacted version of the KPMG report on Sandys 3...

A former public works minister said yesterday that it was he who commissioned the report into the finances of a struggling sports centre — not the trustees who ran it. Trevor Moniz, now a One Bermuda Alliance backbencher, explained that he asked for ...

The decision to not release a report into a failed sports centre was based on advice from the Attorney-Gerneral’s Chambers, the public works minister told MPs. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said: “I’m not making decisions of this nature on my own. T...

The Government’s refusal to release a financial report into a failed sports centre that cost taxpayers millions of dollars could end up in court. Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez told the Department of Public Lands and Buildings to disclo...

The Government has been ordered to make public a report into the finances of a failed sports centre that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez, in a decision due to be released today, told the Department of ...