47 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "News" author Sam Strangeways
The Civil Justice Advocacy Group says a revised legal framework is needed for handling disciplinary matters for judges
DATE: Nov 15, 2024
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Release of records shows details of cashless gaming talks and concerns of the gaming commission
DATE: Jun 07, 2024
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Jeffrey Elkinson says board meets regularly but needs independent administrative help to deal with caseload
DATE: Nov 30, 2023
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A set of court recordings that judges claimed did not exist and which detectives failed to find during a “full and proper investigation” have been uncovered during an inquiry by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
A group of litigants who have bee...
DATE: Mar 11, 2019
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Other
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingly clean” gambling jurisdiction if the industry regulator is not upfront about its own finances, overseas experts have warned.
Gene Johnson, a gaming consultant, told The Royal Gazette that a...
DATE: Feb 02, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s Constitution is unfinished because it failed to give human rights protection to women and gay people, One Bermuda Alliance senator Andrew Simons said yesterday.
Mr Simons told the Senate that there was a “certain irony” to David Burt’s call...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Critics at home and overseas continued yesterday to pour scorn over a plan to bring the island’s casino regulatory body under ministerial control.
The Casino Gaming Amendment Act 2017, expected to be debated and approved in Parliament early next mont...
DATE: Nov 24, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Government will not withdraw its controversial plan to bring the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission under ministerial control, tourism minister Jamahl Simmons said yesterday.
Mr Simmons, moments after Cheryl-Ann Mapp was announced as the new commis...
DATE: Nov 22, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Women from Bermuda will be among hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the Women’s March on Washington tomorrow, on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Journalist Clare O’Connor and student Kayley Gibbons both plan to attend the rall...
DATE: Jan 20, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former minister Quinton Edness is calling on the Cabinet to launch an immediate investigation into the most recent findings of the Auditor-General.
Mr Edness said scrutiny of the “litany of non-compliance with financial instructions (FIs) and related...
DATE: Dec 02, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways