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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...
DATE: Jan 27, 2012
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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...
DATE: Jan 27, 2012
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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...
DATE: Jan 27, 2012
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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...
DATE: Jan 25, 2012
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Anti-draft campaigner Lamont Marshall has been arrested this afternoon by regimental police, according to his father.
Bermudians Against the Draft (BAD) founder Larry Marshall Sr said he received a call from his 27-year-old son a short time ago and r...
DATE: Jan 24, 2012
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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...
DATE: Jan 23, 2012
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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...
DATE: Jan 21, 2012
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The commanding officer of the Bermuda Regiment last night warned anti-draft campaigner Lamont Marshall that he would be arrested for failing to report for duty to Warwick Camp.
Lieutenant Colonel Brian Gonsalves told The Royal Gazette that top runner...
DATE: Jan 20, 2012
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A “back of town” business owner told a town-hall meeting she was “sick and tired of Front Street getting the cream and us getting the leftovers”.
Sherma Simmons said she felt City Hall and Government funds were automatically funneled to Front Street,...
DATE: Jan 20, 2012
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The Corporation of Hamilton is doing “less with less” to ensure it remains a going concern, according to Mayor Charles Gosling.
He told a town-hall meeting that the fall in revenue suffered by City Hall after the Municipalities Reform Act came into e...
DATE: Jan 19, 2012
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