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Opposition leader Craig Cannonier has questioned why Premier Paula Cox failed to tell taxpayers about problems at Bermuda Land Development Company when she was alerted to them more than a year ago. The Auditor General’s Special Report on the Misuse o...

The Bermuda Land Development Company rarely hits the headlines. In fact, most taxpayers could be forgiven for knowing little about its existence, so seldom are they told anything about it. The quango’s website, www.bldc.com, features limited informat...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews spent months trying to discover who in Government signed off on payments to fund a private legal action for two Cabinet Ministers. But she was unable to find out the answer, along with other details about the c...

The Royal Gazette’s A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign, launched in January 2008, called on Government to open up to the public all quangos, including the Bermuda Land Development Corporation (BLDC). We asked that these taxpayer-funded ent...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews has questioned the “tone at the top” of Government after uncovering two instances of the misuse of public funds and being refused information to fully investigate them. Mrs Matthews revealed in a scathing repor...

In early 2010, when the Bermuda Land Development Company’s board approved the payment of consultancy fees to chairman Edward Saunders and deputy chairman Pastor Leroy Bean, an approximate figure of $14,000 each was settled upon. The two men were to c...

Anti-draft campaigner Lamont Marshall was arrested yesterday afternoon by regimental police. His father, Bermudians Against the Draft founder Larry Marshall Sr, said he received a call from his 27-year-old son and rushed to Hamilton to see Lamont bei...

British Labour peer John Prescott has raised concerns in the House of Lords about Cunard registering its ships on Bermuda’s Register of Shipping. The British cruise line switched its ships’ registration from the UK to Bermuda in October to benefit fr...

No determination has been made on whether anti-draft campaigners Lamont and Larry Marshall and Jamel Hardtman are conscientious objectors, the Defence Exemption Tribunal said yesterday. The Tribunal issued a statement through Government in response t...