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Laura Neuman has travelled the world and seen a lot of transparency laws as part of her job as access to information project manager for the Carter Center in the States.
But she has never known a country respond in the way Bermuda did when asked to c...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Sam Strangeways
Parliamentary committees will remain closed to the public if new rules for the House of Assembly are approved by MPs in November.
The draft Standing Orders — drawn up by Deputy Speaker Dame Jennifer Smith and Opposition MP John Barritt — state that m...
DATE: Sep 09, 2009
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Government backbencher Walter Lister has said he is certain the parliamentary committee which scrutinises public spending will soon stop meeting in secret.
The veteran PLP MP, who sits on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), told The Royal Gazette: "...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
If you didn't know the phrase "A Right to Know" before 2008, chances are you're well acquainted with it now.
On January 21, The Royal Gazette launched a campaign to get a freedom of information law passed in Bermuda — and soon even Premier Ewart Brow...
DATE: Dec 30, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
Public school principals told yesterday of their dissatisfaction and disaffection with educational reform during a historic meeting of a new parliamentary committee.
The Joint Education Select Committee opened its doors to the public and press for th...
DATE: Oct 23, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
A cross-party parliamentary committee reviewing how educational reform is being implemented in the wake of the Hopkins Report wants to hold its meetings in public, its chairman said yesterday.
Government MP Neletha Butterfield, who is heading the bip...
DATE: Aug 27, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
Government spends the largest single chunk of its budget on education ¿ more than $150 million for this financial year alone.
Taxpayers' cash is used, quite rightly, to pay for everything from textbooks and teachers' salaries, to staff wages at the M...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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