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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 ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
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...
DATE: Jul 19, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
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...
DATE: Jul 17, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
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...
DATE: Jul 11, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A bid to slash interest rates for people with court judgments against them for debt has been launched.
PLP Shadow Finance Minister David Burt tabled a Bill to cut interest rates on judgement debts in default from seven percent to three percent.
“Inte...
DATE: Jul 07, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
An inquiry into a $300,000 campaign donation by a group of wealthy US businessmen to an OBA-linked group is set to be released within the next few days, the party chairman said.
The investigation into the donation by US tycoon Nathan Landow and assoc...
DATE: Jul 01, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
People crippled by debt should not be sent to jail, according to Opposition MP Wayne Furbert.
He has tabled a bill in the House of Assembly to outlaw a practice branded “barbaric” by campaigners.
“What we’re saying is that the courts should not have ...
DATE: Jun 28, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Pensions are set to be frozen at current levels for Government employees and MPs, Minister of Finance Bob Richards announced.
Mr Richards told the House of Assembly that pensions were massively underfunded and that he would introduce legislation aime...
DATE: Jun 28, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A wall of silence last night surrounded a probe into a $300,000 donation to an One Bermuda Alliance-linked political fund.
Party chairman Thad Hollis — who is heading the inquiry into the donation by US tycoon Nathan Landow and associates made in the...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The OBA chairman has not come under pressure to come up with a report into a campaign donation by US tycoon Nathan Landow which gives the party a clean bill of health, Premier Michael Dunkley said last night.
Mr Dunkley said: “Mr Hollis will speak fo...
DATE: Jun 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
