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A law passed three years ago allowing taxi drivers and others to become limousine providers has prompted just eight applications with none of them from cabbies, Premier Ewart Brown has told MPs.
The Tourism and Transport Minister introduced new legis...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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Bermuda is to get an independent law reform commission under new legislation passed by MPs on Friday.
Junior Justice Minister Michael Scott told the House of Assembly that the Law Reform Commission Act 2009 signified a "very crucial milestone" in law...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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The corporations of Hamilton and St. George's vowed yesterday to fight a Cabinet plan to abolish them. The two municipalities — which came into existence more than two centuries ago and employ almost 200 people — held a joint press conference at City...
DATE: Jun 26, 2009
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Protesters will march on Parliament yet again today to demand the removal of Premier Ewart Brown.A demonstration the third to take place in the space of a fortnight is planned for 12.30 p.m. outside the House of Assembly.
The organisers are a group c...
DATE: Jun 26, 2009
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The corporations of Hamilton and St. George’s are to be abolished, it was revealed this afternoon.
Hamilton Mayor Sutherland Madeiros told a press conference at City Hall that both municipalities were “absolutely” against the plan to get rid of them....
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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The Opposition yesterday urged the UK not to punish Bermuda for Premier Ewart Brown's Guantánamo Four actions by rescinding a 40-year-old agreement.
The British Government is reviewing the general entrustment agreement it has had with the Island sinc...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown made a decision "based on his human heart" to let four Muslims from Guantánamo Bay come to Bermuda — and those that protested against him last week were "prejudiced and racist".
That is the view of Al Hajj Clinton Muhammad, a spok...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Opposition MPs Mark Pettingill and Darius Tucker have been suspended from the Shadow Cabinet for failing to vote for a motion of no confidence in Premier Ewart Brown's Government.
The pair — who defied a three-line whip by not backing the doomed moti...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The family of missing organs victim Norman Palmer is to challenge a coroner's ruling that he was partly to blame for his own death.
A judicial review will take place in September to contest Coroner Khamisi Tokunbo's verdict that Mr. Palmer died of na...
DATE: Jun 23, 2009
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The Opposition has pledged to continue to "fight" after failing to win a vote of no confidence in Premier Ewart Brown's Government in the House of Assembly.
But UBP leader Kim Swan gave nothing away last night about what his party's next move would b...
DATE: Jun 23, 2009
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