Bermudan minister says unemployment insurance scheme to go ahead.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Caribbean Media Corporation news agency website on 22 February

Hamilton, Bermuda: Finance Minister Paula Cox says plans for a Bermuda unemployment insurance scheme are still on the table.

Some business leaders had quietly hoped the scheme was no longer under consideration when it was not mentioned in last Friday's [17 February] budget.

But speaking to the business community at a post-budget breakfast meeting organized by the Chamber of Commerce, Cox said plans she had previously trumpeted to install the scheme to provide payments to those out of work were still on track to …