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A Premier’s question period is to be introduced in the House of Assembly starting next month.
Speaker of the House Dennis Lister Jr told Parliament the question period has been approved for the second sitting each month.
It will be attached to the qu...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
By-election winners Curtis Dickinson and Scott Pearman were sworn in as MPs today.
Mr Dickinson, who won Warwick North East for the Progressive Labour Party last night, and Mr Pearman, who held Paget East for the One Bermuda Alliance, were straight i...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The company behind plans for a solar plant at the airport has met with the Ministry of Finance to explore avenues for Bermudians to invest, Walter Roban told MPs.
The transport minister said Canadian-based Saturn Solar Bermuda 1 will build the projec...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The race is on today as the Progressive Labour Party and the One Bermuda Alliance do battle in the island’s first by-elections since December 2016.
In Paget East, Scott Pearman of the OBA takes on Curtis Richardson of the PLP.
In Warwick North East, ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Old-school voters in Paget East said they were worried about the island’s future as they head to the polls tomorrow.
In a traditional stronghold of the One Bermuda Alliance, The Progressive Labour Party is still dogged by its past economic record in ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
All eyes are on Paget East and Warwick North East this week as a double by-election on Thursday stands to deliver a verdict on the One Bermuda Alliance.
Political commentators Phil Perinchief, the former Attorney-General, and former National Liberal ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda will be able to send prison inmates with mental disorders overseas for treatment under legislation approved last week in Parliament.
Health minister Kim Wilson told MPs the legislation would help persons requiring “special psychiatric treatme...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s Portuguese community was “ecstatic” after it was announced yesterday that a public holiday next year will mark the 170th anniversary of the arrival of the first immigrants from Madeira.
Andrea Moniz-DeSouza, the Honorary Portuguese Consul, ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, accused Commissioner of Police Michael DeSilva of poor succession planning yesterday after three Bermudians were overlooked in the hunt for his replacement.
Mr Caines said they had applied to replace M...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A violence reduction programme is under way in Bermuda’s prisons, national security minister Wayne Caines told Parliament this morning.
The programme has been completed by six inmates in Westgate, Mr Caines said.
The four- to six-month programme is b...
DATE: Jun 01, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell