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Ombudsman Arlene Brock has praised Bermuda Archives for putting the Island's original slave registers on display.
Ms Brock — who published a damning report on the official repository of government records in July — said researchers told her they want...
DATE: Oct 21, 2009
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Three organisations are urging Government to fulfil a promise to ban discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation — amid fears that a planned amendment to the law has been shelved.
The Human Rights Commission, Bermuda Bar Council and Amnesty ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2009
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Amnesty International in Bermuda is urging people to buy a book on poverty written by the charity's secretary general.
A display about 'The Unheard Truth, Poverty and Human Rights' by Irene Khan will go up at Bermuda Bookstore on Queen Street today (...
DATE: Oct 17, 2009
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Phillip Rego won his first ever award yesterday — but the bighearted charity worker insisted that the accolade was really for all of Bermuda.
The former landscape gardener — who gave up his business a year ago to help poverty-stricken Haitian childre...
DATE: Oct 17, 2009
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Government is being urged to rethink its draft freedom of information bill by critics who say its lack of retroactivity is "nutty", "disturbing" and could render it a "useless" law.
The proposed public access to information (PATI) legislation would n...
DATE: Oct 17, 2009
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A long-awaited freedom of information bill was last night unveiled by Government and could become law during the next parliamentary session.
Premier Ewart Brown announced in a televised speech that the draft public access to information (PATI) legisl...
DATE: Oct 16, 2009
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A long-awaited freedom of information bill was last night unveiled by Government and could become law during the next parliamentary session.
Premier Ewart Brown announced in a televised speech that the draft public access to information (PATI) legisl...
DATE: Oct 16, 2009
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Allegations of sexual misconduct at the Bermuda Regiment are to be investigated by the Human Rights Commission.
The commissioners decided at a meeting yesterday afternoon to immediately launch their own inquiry into revelations by The Royal Gazette t...
DATE: Oct 16, 2009
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Independent MP Wayne Furbert has questioned why citizens are not "marching in the streets" about allegations of sexual misconduct at Bermuda Regiment.
The former United Bermuda Party leader plans to raise the topic in Parliament next month, when he w...
DATE: Oct 15, 2009
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City of Hamilton workers staged a three-hour emergency meeting about "unresolved issues" with management yesterday — and are expected to hold another one today.
The meeting — attended by scores of staff, as well as Bermuda Industrial Union chief orga...
DATE: Oct 14, 2009
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