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If it goes ahead, the upgrade should make Hamilton a much more pleasant place to begin, end, or stop off on a journey. It will include a 24-hour seated waiting area with security monitoring; secure parking for bikes and scooters; improved ticketing facilities, public address system and “wayfinding signage”. Perhaps most importantly, there will fully accessible, electronically adjustable toilets and handbasins to cater for people with those needs. In recent times a lack of Waka Kotahi fun...

April 27th, 2021 in Featured. Closed Ethiopia Habtemariam says she’s ready to use her newfound autonomy [as chairman/CEO of Motown Records] to fully execute the vision she had for Motown when she arrived. She has spent the last several months staffing up, and, she says, “creating a blueprint” for the label’s future as a global force in recorded music. (Billboard magazine) Billboard Motown’s Ethiopia Habtemariam Is Ready to Fully Execute Her Vision: ‘Stay Tuned Wh...

Since overseeing Motown’s move from New York to Los Angeles as the label’s president in 2014, Habtemariam, 41, has led entrepreneurial ventures such as the label’s 2015 alliance with Atlanta-based Quality Control, which has yielded hits by Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Migos, City Girls and Layton Greene. Motown is also home to Blacksmith Recordings (Ted When, Vince Staples) and Since the 1980s (Asiahn, Njomza) as well as Erykah Badu, Kem, Tiana Major9 and Nigerian star Tiwa Savage. During Habtem...

When Ethiopia Habtemariam was appointed chairman/CEO of Motown Records in March, she became the third woman — and only the second one of color — ever to hold the title at a major label. Her ground-breaking appointment also signaled a full-circle moment for Motown: It is once again a stand-alone label, with Habtemariam reporting directly to Universal Music Group (UMG) chairman/ CEO Lucian Grainge. (Previously, she reported to Capitol Music Group chairman/CEO Steve Barnett, who retired at ...

Earlier this month, the council voted eight to four against a move to establish Māori wards in time for the 2022 elections. Days later, however, in a rare move, Hamilton Mayor Paula Southgate and five councillors put forward a motion to redebate the issue. Southgate said the decision delaying the creation of Māori wards for at least three years had caused pain and division in the community. One of the council’s five Maangai Māori, Hemi Rau, resigned from his position following the initia...

Christel Yardley/Stuff Traffic heads north along the Cambridge Section of the Waikato Expressway towards Hamilton. Vehicles are regularly bumper-to-bumper during peak hour. A call to slap a tax on residents travelling to other parts of the country for work or play is raising the hackles of provincial leaders. Hamilton has floated the idea of imposing an amenity levy on its satellite towns as it looks for new ways to fund the city’s upkeep. But any notion of a border tax being imposed on Auc...

Hamilton City Councillor Rob Pascoe heads the councils finance committee. Where there were rates owing from past financial years, and the council was unable to secure a payment arrangement, staff contacted the mortgagee and requested payment. Should there be no mortgage, the council said it could commence legal action. Hamilton City Council Finance Committee Chairman Rob Pascoe said by law, unpaid rates could be added as a debt to a property and could be recovered when the property was sold....

City bosses hope paid parking on the edge of the CBD could raise $1.6 million a year. The days of free parking on the CBD’s fringe look numbered as Hamilton politicians hunt for new ways to boost the council’s coffers. A proposal to introduce paid commuter parking on the outskirts of the central city could force hundreds of city workers to rethink their daily commutes and is already attracting some heavyweight political support. City bosses hope the proposal, which is included in the coun...

End-of-year staff functions are a little different this year, says Hamilton City Council Chief Executive Richard Briggs. Slicing up the budget ensured the council’s 1200 staff still had a chance to hold some kind of event. However, the money allocated could not be used to purchase alcohol, with staff having to buy their own if they wanted a tipple. The $20,000 budget was near the $22,323 cost of the council’s 2019 Christmas event, although Briggs pointed out that partners of staff h...