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Join us live for ongoing coverage of the House of Assembly today, where legislators today are to get details on the end of Covid-19 emergency powers as announced on Monday by Kim Wilson, the health minister.
Ms Wilson said yesterday Covid-19 restrict...
DATE: Sep 30, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Former finance minister Curtis Dickinson has launched a leadership bid against David Burt, the Premier
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Curtis Dickinson will face scepticism within the Progressive Labour Party rank and file in his leadership bid, a PLP source close to the Premier told The Royal Gazette.
The former finance minister and an MP for more than four years, Mr Dickinson was ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government’s Travel Authorisation Form has been blasted by the Opposition as hamstringing tourism while benefiting “private enterprise”.
Susan Jackson, the Shadow Minister of Transport, said the $40 levied on travellers to Bermuda had lost the is...
DATE: Sep 16, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The accession of King Charles III was proclaimed yesterday morning at Front Street by Rena Lalgie, the Governor, in a ceremony watched by legislators and a hushed crowd of spectators.
A 21-gun salute thundered over Hamilton Harbour to mark the closin...
DATE: Sep 12, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The drive for a regulated cannabis industry in Bermuda, which appeared to build into an open feud between the Bermuda and UK governments last night, already comes with a fraught history.
Legalising the drug is a key Progressive Labour Party pledge – ...
DATE: Sep 07, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Stalled financing for an international arbitration centre in Hamilton should have been reckoned with before the plans to build the facility got announced two years ago, the Opposition has charged.
Craig Cannonier, the Shadow Minister of Works and Eng...
DATE: Aug 30, 2022
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An international arbitration centre planned for Hamilton is likely to have to share its premises with other offices so that construction costs can be repaid.
The facility for settling disputes, to be named after the former Progressive Labour Party MP...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Two Bermuda MPs and the island’s Clerk to the Legislature had a place at the table for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference that wrapped up today in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The delegation, with government MP Jamahl Simmons, Opposition MP Susan Jac...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government’s emergency spending in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic is under the microscope of the bipartisan Public Accounts Committee.
Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition and chairman of the PAC, said the group continued to examine healt...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell