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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 ...

Taxpayers’ money was poured into the failed Sandys 360 sports centre even after its management stopped payment of social insurance contributions and land tax, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Gitanjali Gutierrez, the information commissioner, scrutinise...

The Senate approved the purchase of the failed Sandys 360 sports centre for $1 million yesterday. The Purchase and Sale Agreement Between the Trustees of Sandys Secondary Middle School and the Government of Bermuda was passed with no objections. And...

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...

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 ...

Craig Cannonier, a One Bermuda Alliance backbencher and former Premier of Bermuda, made some telling remarks in the House of Assembly on March 2. Telling because they neatly summed up the prevailing view among this island’s political elite when it co...

The public are to fork out $1 million to pay off the mortgage on the failed Sandys 360 sports centre and lender HSBC has agreed to write off more than $8 million. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, minister of public works, told MPs that HSBC was prepar...

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...

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...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch confirmed yesterday that the Government is looking to purchase Sandys 360. However, the Minister of Public Works told the House of Assembly that the terms of the agreement had not been finalised. He said: “We are not go...