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DeCouto will fight another day, it was revealed last night. For the two were unanimously reselected as candidates for the constituency, lost in the PLP November 9 landslide. Outgoing constituency chairman Terry West said the mood of the meeting was o...

Teacher-turned-MP Dale Butler yesterday admitted he wanted to call for order at the Remembrance Day service which turned into a PLP rally. Mr. Butler said: "Many of us in leadership roles, who stood there on November 11 wanted to step forward and ask...

withdrawn after staff threatened to go on strike if he was appointed, it was claimed yesterday. Now former senior Police officer Mr. Bain -- who has already quit his job as executive officer of the UBP -- is said to be out in the cold. And, according...

Parole for prisoners should be decided by a board independent of political control, prisons chief Ed Dyer said yesterday. And he said he would be pushing for a new-style parole board whose decisions did not have to be signed off by the Minister for H...

Rebel United Bermuda Party MP Trevor Moniz is still out in the cold after turning down a Shadow Ministry as the party forms its first-ever Opposition team. And yesterday he blamed complacency and a failure to listen to the people for the party's crus...

Compulsory after-sentence treatment for sex offenders could be on the cards for Bermuda, it was revealed yesterday. Canadian prisons supremo Ole Ingstrup said Canada now had laws to ensure supervision outside prison walls. And he said: "We would be m...

Bermuda's Prison officers are set to benefit from a new link-up with their opposite numbers in Canada. And officers on the Island are set to get special training in hostage negotiation and riot control from an expert from the Canadian Correctional Se...

Hong Kong QC Denis Mitchell is set to become Bermuda's newest judge, The Royal Gazette can reveal. For Mr. Mitchell, a Scots-born barrister in the former British colony, has beaten several other candidates for the post of Puisne Judge in Supreme Cour...

A mix of the old and the new from its depleted ranks will form the United Bermuda Party's first Shadow Cabinet. But Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon admitted a UBP knocked for six in the General Election would have problems because of 26-14 split in f...

A soft-touch debut Throne Speech from the new Government yesterday kicked off the first session of Parliament under a PLP administration. And -- as predicted in The Royal Gazette -- the Progressive Labour Party's first outline for Government stuck la...