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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...

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...

The disused Sandys 360 sports centre could be bought by the Bermuda Government. A $1 million sale and purchase agreement between the Government and Sandys Secondary Middle School was tabled yesterday by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of...

Dear Sir, Sam Strangeways is to be congratulated on her story in The Royal Gazette of May 5, asking plaintively “where is the missing $807,000?” That article, the recent Auditor-General Report and daily experiences of taxpayers tends to indicate that...

The Bermuda Government is still pursuing the trustees of failed sports facility Sandys 360 for hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ cash paid out by mistake. A public access to information request by The Royal Gazette to the Ministry of Fin...

Tentative plans are afoot for the swimming pool at Sandys 360 to be put back into limited use. Talks are under way with Oracle Team USA for the 25-metre pool at the sports centre to be used for training by the America’s Cup athletes. Craig McFarlane,...

Bermuda Health Council has said it will investigate allegations of unpaid employee health insurance at Sandys 360 if former staff of the defunct sports facility get in touch. The Royal Gazette yesterday reported claims by a former employee who said s...

The demise of the Sandys 360 community centre has left former staff, some facing severe financial challenges, unpaid and unable to get answers. “It has been two years since Sandys 360 closed and quality of life for the staff is bad,” said one, a stru...

Opposition MP Kim Wilson has urged the Bermuda Government to make efforts to save the closed Sandys 360 Sports Centre. Speaking during the House of Assembly’s Motion to Adjourn on Friday, Ms Wilson called on the Government to look into ways it could ...

The Bermuda Government has stonewalled questions about how much it is still paying to keep a defunct sports facility from falling into disuse. The Sandys 360 sports centre is still receiving money from the public purse, according to its chairman Stan...

The fate of the Sandys 360 sports facility, shut down since last year, remains in question — and its demise has been blamed on bad management by Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. Diallo Rabain, the Opposition Leader in the Senate, noted during the ...

Summer activities have been curtailed at the Sandys Community Centre, leaving area youth with little social options but to hang out at night. Six months after a vehement protest outside the Boaz Island facility over cutbacks, parents were informed of...