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International transparency campaigners have praised Bermuda for doing the right thing and finally passing a freedom of information law.
Commentators who have followed the Island's path toward a more open, accountable government said they were pleased...
DATE: Jul 26, 2010
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Hundreds of submissions on Government's Public Access to Information (PATI) bill are available to view at the Cabinet Office for the first time.
Premier Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly: "It is important to this Government to share with the ver...
DATE: Jul 26, 2010
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Police swooped on a Pembroke neighbourhood yesterday afternoon after a report that fugitive Alvone Maybury was hiding out there.
But a search of homes on The Glebe Road lasting almost four-and-a-half hours proved fruitless and a team of armed officer...
DATE: Jul 24, 2010
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Bermuda's citizens were last night given the right to know as MPs unanimously approved a long-promised freedom of information bill.
The Island joined scores of democracies around the world which have laws allowing taxpayers access to records held by ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2010
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Members of a Christian campaign group calling for the closure of Guantánamo Bay met with Bermuda's Uighurs at the weekend.
Witness Against Torture's Luke Hansen, John Bambrick and Jeremy Kirk came to the Island to visit Khalil Mamut, Ablikim Turahun,...
DATE: Jul 23, 2010
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Police swooped on The Glebe Road in Pembroke this evening after a report that fugitive Alvone Maybury was hiding in a house here.
Armed officers with sniffer dogs are currently performing a second search of a white building and the road has been seal...
DATE: Jul 23, 2010
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Opposition leader Kim Swan has called for Labour and Immigration Minister David Burch to be sacked, accusing him of "intimidating citizens for their political views".
The demand came after The Royal Gazette revealed that a civil servant in the Depart...
DATE: Jul 23, 2010
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Participants in a programme to help drug-addicted offenders get clean were praised for their progress at a ceremony on Monday. Premier Ewart Brown and Culture and Social Rehabilitation Minister Neletha Butterfield heard about the success of the 12 of...
DATE: Jul 23, 2010
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A Department of Immigration officer sent an e-mail to a local company to complain about one of its employees signing a message in support of the Corporation of Hamilton's Save Our City campaign.
The civil servant wrote to the head of the firm to say ...
DATE: Jul 22, 2010
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The grandmother of Alvone Maybury's child yesterday begged the fugitive to turn himself in — for his own sake and the sake of his toddler son.
In a direct appeal to the 24-year-old, who gave prison officers the slip on July 13, Leasser Swan said: "Th...
DATE: Jul 22, 2010
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