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Human rights watchdogs today warned social media users over illegal language in political debates. Human Rights Commission (HRC) chairman Michael Hanson said it had been monitoring online comments involving plans to reform middle schools and the rece...

The OBA is to tighten up its administration in the wake of a report into the handling of a donation to a party-linked grassroots organisation, chairman Thad Hollis said last night. “There are just things you can come up with — tidy up administrative ...

The OBA has no clear idea what happened to $350,000 donated by a group of businessman to a party-linked campaign group. Thad Hollis, the party chairman made the admission yesterday, and also he said the inquiry had “discovered in the course of this i...

A major figure in the Jetgate scandal was never interviewed for an OBA report into the affair, he said last night. And Derrick Green, a US-based political consultant who worked for the OBA in the run-up to the 2012 general election, claimed party Cha...

PLP leader Marc Bean has called for the UK to dissolve Bermuda’s Parliament and call an election. Mr Bean said Britain should act following a refusal by Governor George Fergusson to back a House of Assembly bid for an inquiry into historic allegation...

Hairdresser Raquel Brown has a blueprint for success. The 26-year-old has just opened her own business — Blueprint Hair Studio — in Hamilton. And she said — despite the recession — she was confident a mix of high-quality service and value would guara...

Bermuda is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights over gay partnerships, an English lawyer and academic has warned. Dr Nicola Barker, a senior lecturer at the University of Kent’s law school, said that the European Court of Human Rig...

Firefighters have taken to the water to train for aircraft ditching in the seas around the airport. And Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service members are being trained to provide legally-required rescue capabilities in the event of a plane hitting the wate...

The Human Rights Commission last night warned that the row over permanent residents and status should not be allowed to degenerate into hate speech. And HRC chairman Michael Hanson said that “hateful, vexatious and/or harmful words” about people’s na...

A bid to set up a commission to look at allegations of historic land grabs has been rejected by Governor George Fergusson. But last night PLP MP Walton Brown — who piloted the motion to set up a probe through the House of Assembly — said he would not...