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Immigration Minister David Burch was advised to "check" himself by the Senate President yesterday after he told his Opposition counterpart Michael Dunkley in the Upper Chamber: "You are not in charge here."
Senator Burch made the remark after refusin...
DATE: Jun 17, 2010
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Housing Minister David Burch yesterday alleged that three opposition MPs never mentioned "their own potential criminal behaviour" when they called for next week's land licence deadline to be extended.
In a statement to the Senate in which he announce...
DATE: Jun 17, 2010
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A government body which compensates victims of crime has been given a budget of $356,000 less this year than it spent in 2008/9 — despite a recent upsurge in murders and shootings.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB) has been allocated $4...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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Ombudsman Arlene Brock says Government has given "inadequate or inappropriate" responses to a third of the recommendations she made last year for improving the Bermuda Archives.
In a special report tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday, Ms Brock ...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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The UK remains adamant that Bermuda's four Uighurs have no entitlement to British nationality — a year after their arrival on the Island.
Governor Sir Richard Gozney told The Royal Gazette this week that talks continued between Britain and the US abo...
DATE: Jun 11, 2010
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Anyone who has stayed in Bermuda for more than a few months knows about rock fever — but the four Uighurs who famously landed on the Island a year ago today have yet to experience it.
They laugh when The Royal Gazette asks them if they have suffered ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2010
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A sergeant major has raised thousands of dollars for charity by braving wind and rain to walk around Bermuda non-stop for 24 hours. Marilyn Steede collected $3,555 for the Salvation Army Corps with her eighth annual walkathon — and is now compiling a...
DATE: Jun 10, 2010
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The local branch of Amnesty International will launch the charity's annual report at Bermuda Bookstore tomorrow (Friday).
Executive director Lucy Attride-Stirling will be at the Queen Street store from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to talk to anyone wanting info...
DATE: Jun 10, 2010
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Bermuda's office in Washington DC is now "open for business" with a new managing director in charge.
Premier Ewart Brown announced in a statement last night that Omar McIntosh — a civil engineering graduate with 15 years experience in the commercial ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2010
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The mainstream media yesterday signed up to a "cogent, thoughtful" code of practice it said would help improve accountability and uphold the principles of press freedom.
The 25-point code — published in full in today's edition of The Royal Gazette an...
DATE: Jun 09, 2010
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