45 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Other" author Jonathan Bell
A top businessman and behind the scenes strategist when the former United Bermuda Party governed the island has died. Edgar Wilkinson was 90.
Mr Wilkinson was also a board member at the Bermuda Monetary Authority in the 1980s.
His businesses included...
DATE: Sep 30, 2020
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Young people continue to encounter racism as they move into the workforce, according to the antiracism group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda.
Teens would benefit from taking part in Curb’s truth and reconciliation talks, vice-president Cordell R...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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Former premier Ewart Brown has said his memoirs, which went on sale this week, have given him the chance to set the record straight.
Dr Brown said yesterday: “I feel that the Bermuda public in particular has been told a plethora of falsehoods about m...
DATE: Nov 07, 2019
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Walton Brown’s unswerving commitment to Bermudian independence brought a touch of humour to the sorrow of his loss.
David Burt, the Premier, and former Progressive Labour Party minister and longstanding friend of Mr Brown’s Dale Butler told the congr...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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Hundreds of mourners packed the Anglican Cathedral to bid farewell yesterday to MP and former government minister Walton Brown.
The standing room-only congregation at the Hamilton church heard that Mr Brown combined a fierce commitment to social just...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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Bermudians were called on to “dare to invent the future” at a packed forum last night on national independence.
The call came from panellist Ryan Perinchief, who brought the audience to its feet at the Bermuda Industrial Union’s EF Gordon Hall.
Mr Pe...
DATE: Aug 23, 2019
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A former premier who appointed the Bermuda Independence Commission in 2005 has asked young people to turn out for tomorrow night’s special forum on the topic.
Alex Scott, who served as premier from 2003 to 2006, said: “The political times here and in...
DATE: Aug 21, 2019
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Abuwi Rasool, one of the founders of the Bermuda Society for the Blind, has died at 89.
Mr Rasool taught handiwork to other blind people, ran his own shop in Hamilton, and prided himself on travelling unaided all over the world.
Born Wilfred John Tac...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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More than 200 young people and adults turned out for a pilot youth forum.
The event on Friday focused on problems such as bullying, suicide gang violence and the decriminalisation of cannabis.
Kasia Burgess, 18, from CedarBridge Academy, Vincent Darr...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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C.V. “Jim” Woolridge was most famous for his many years as tourism minister.
A man of strong views, he said in his memoirs, The House that Jack Built, that he was “hired, fired, rehired, refired and then rehired again” from the ministry for standing ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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