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A Scots MP yesterday moved to quell a mini-Civil War in the House of Commons over the name of a new Bermuda/Britain parliamentary pressure group. And Ian Davidson said the UK Commonwealth Parliamentary Association group designed to promote better rel...

profile in the UK and Europe, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Premier Jennifer Smith confirmed last night: "Cabinet has agreed to the hiring of a lobbyist/public relations firm to represent Bermuda in the UK and Europe.'' And Ms Smith ruled out full-t...

pressure to stand as an independent candidate, UBP members said yesterday. Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto lost out in the vote for the official nomination -- but now angry supporters want her to stage a solo run under the "Independent UBP'' banner. A party ...

special pressure group set up to push Island interests. For the Anglo-Bermudian branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has been revived after years of neglect. And Scots MP Ian Davidson -- who visited the Island as part of a CPA delegat...

A Paget political punch-up yesterday broke out in the open after Opposition leader Pamela Gordon's sister was adopted as the UBP by-election candidate. The row broke out after a meeting of Paget West members picked Sen. Patricia Gordon Pamplin to run...

Full British nationality for Bermudians will be in the long-awaited White Paper on Britain's rewrite of relations with its Overseas Territories, The Royal Gazette can reveal. And there will be no two-way street on residency rights for British mainlan...

A ground-breaking Canadian court decision which ruled that asking whether "no means no'' in sex assault cases is illegal should be adopted in Bermuda, an Opposition MP said yesterday. Shadow Health and Social Services Minister Kim Young hit the headl...

Paget West by-election for the United Bermuda Party in a two-horse race against ex-MP Ann Cartwright DeCouto. But the move could now spark a stand by ex-party deputy chairman David Sullivan in protest at a claimed railroading of the UBP's constitutio...

Affairs and Public Safety Minister Paula Cox. And Ms Cox said she hoped the special task force set up to help quell a mini-mutiny at Warwick Camp would restore order in the ranks. Ms Cox -- who has delegated powers over the Regiment -- said: "Concern...

Premier Jennifer Smith wants the Island's Governor to be recalled, according to British sources. One said: "It seems clear that Bermuda's Premier would like to see a change in Governor as early as possible.'' The Royal Gazette has been told that Ms ...