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Air Antilles Express Plane Stops In Bermuda
An Air Antilles Express plane was seen in Bermuda yesterday afternoon [May 26] departing the island just before 2.00pm. Air Antilles Express is a regional airline which generally services the French Antilles, and the plane is understood to have been making a fuel stop on the island, having travelled from Guadeloupe heading to Quebec, Canada for routine... Read more of this article
Behind The Statements: Airport Development
[Opinion column written by Larry Burchall] The Airport Itself L F Wade International Airport is a small airport. Based on Airport Departure Tax revenues, about 393,944 people passed through in 2012/13, and 383,143 in 2013/14. Could be around 380,000 in 2014/15. These airport user numbers are much lower than the annual 550,000+ of the 1980’s. The... Read more of this article
Video: Opposition Leader On Meeting With FCO
The PLP delegation returned from the UK this evening [May 21] after meeting with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office [FCO], and the Commonwealth Parliament Association [CPA] regarding the airport redevelopment plan and other matters. The PLP previously said that both meetings were held on Wednesday [May 20] and the “official agenda for these... Read more of this article
PC Response: Minister/CCC/Aecon Conference
Following yesterday’s press briefing with Finance Minister Bob Richards and senior executives from the Canadian Commercial Corporation [CCC] and Aecon, the People’s Campaign said the “timing of this press conference and the sudden presence of the parties is more than coincidental considering that in the past when CCC and Aecon perceived... Read more of this article
Videos: Minister, CCC & Aecon On Airport Plans
[Updated with videos] Finance Minister Bob Richards — along with senior executives from the Canadian Commercial Corporation [CCC] and Aecon — held a press briefing today [May 20] in relation to the contract to build a new airport terminal building. CCC CEO Martin Zablocki said, “Aecon brought this project to CCC’s attention after... Read more of this article
Minister: Airport Plan Appraisal Now Completed
Today [May 20], Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance Bob Richards announced the “completion of an independent appraisal of the method of procurement for the redevelopment of the L.F. Wade International Airport using the Canadian Commercial Corporation [CCC].” Minister Richards said, “In order to improve the value of this unique proposal,... Read more of this article
Customs Long Room At Airport To Close In June
The Collector of Customs said they wish to “inform the importing public that the Customs Department will no longer be operating a Long Room at the L. F. Wade International Airport [LFWIA] from Monday, 1st June, 2015.” “As of Monday, 1st June, 2015, the Customs Department will be operating one Long Room only from our main offices, at... Read more of this article
Burt: ‘Disregarding Rules Of Good Governance’
“The unanimous rejection by the OBA of the PLP motion that would have subjected the 35 year airport privatisation to a competitive tender process demonstrates that the OBA are a government intent on disregarding the basic and fundamental rules of good governance,” Shadow Minister of Finance David Burt said this evening. This follows after... Read more of this article
People’s Campaign: Airport/Aecon/CCC Emails
The People’s Campaign said they “would like to highlight the following inconsistencies and statements that have been made surrounding the airport development project and request that the Minister of Finance publicly respond to the questions raised in the hope that he will bring clarification to the people of Bermuda.” “Minister... Read more of this article
PLP: Airport Deal Was “Tainted From The Start”
[Updated with videos] “These documents prove collusion to extract over a billion dollars from Bermuda in the form of a no-bid contract,” and the deal was “tainted from the start,” Shadow Minister of Finance David Burt said, adding that the “Minister of Finance is unquestionably compromised and “the path now leads... Read more of this article
74.7% Oppose Airport Run By Foreign Company
74.7% of voters were opposed to “having the airport developed and run by a foreign company,” according to a recent poll released by Profiles of Bermuda. In releasing the poll results, Profiles said, “Nearly three-quarters of voters [74.7%] were opposed to having the airport developed and run by a foreign company. Less than 2 in 10... Read more of this article
Video: Finance Minister On Aecon/CCC Deal
“The notion that somehow we were doing some sort of deal with Aecon before we met and dealt with CCC is nonsense” and the “idea that somehow we had some sort of plot or collusion is ludicrous,” Finance Minister Bob Richards said today [May 13], adding that “there is nothing that we have done that has not been according... Read more of this article
