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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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A world-renowned judge's verdict on whether a partial press gag imposed by the Premier was unlawful will be revealed at a public forum next month.
The Human Rights Commission is hosting the event on Wednesday, November 4, at the Bermuda Underwater Ex...
DATE: Oct 14, 2009
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Corporation of Hamilton workers have downed tools this lunchtime to stage an emergency meeting.
The session began shortly after 1 p.m. and BIU organiser George Scott is in attendance.
A union representative told The Royal Gazette: “It's about some is...
DATE: Oct 13, 2009
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Governor Sir Richard Gozney has said he sees "no convincing argument" for a Royal Commission into allegations of sexual misconduct at Warwick Camp.
Sir Richard was responding to calls from Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley and anti-conscriptio...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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