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The US insists it has given Bermuda everything it needs to complete a security check of the four Guantánamo Bay Uighurs — but Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday disagreed.
He revealed on Wednesday that the Bermuda Police Service had still not rece...
DATE: Jul 10, 2009
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A survey which said that six out of ten residents in Bermuda think Premier Ewart Brown should resign for his Guantánamo actions was "statistically sound and valid", pollsters insisted yesterday.
Research.bm denied a claim from the PLP that the indepe...
DATE: Jul 10, 2009
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Police have still not completed a security review of the four Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay — almost a month after they arrived in Bermuda.
Governor Sir Richard Gozney said yesterday that it was through no fault of Bermuda Police Service that the check...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Tourism chiefs have delayed an announcement on which performers will appear at this year's Bermuda Music Festival.
The Bermuda Tourism website stated until yesterday that "this year's featured musical artists and ticket information" would be revealed...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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David Saul arrived back on the Island yesterday after having a minor heart attack last week and being airlifted to Boston.
The former Premier spoke to The Royal Gazette soon after getting home from the Lahey Clinic, where doctors fitted him with two ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Local filmmaker Lucinda Spurling is calling for all Government records held at the Bermuda Archives to be made available to the public for free.
The director — whose history documentary 'The Lion and The Mouse' won this year's audience choice award a...
DATE: Jul 08, 2009
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Ombudsman Arlene Brock has recommended that the director of Bermuda Archives be moved to a less front line role after an investigation which found evidence of maladministration.
Ms Brock told a press conference yesterday she believed Karla Hayward ou...
DATE: Jul 07, 2009
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The black founder of an online discussion group accused by Cabinet Minister Walter Roban of being affiliated to the white supremacist British National Party has described the claim as entirely false.
Wayne Ball Jr. told The Royal Gazette he set up Be...
DATE: Jul 07, 2009
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Opposition leader Kim Swan has called for Cabinet Minister Walter Roban to apologise for telling a white voter he did not correspond with "racists and bigots" and that she should not contact him again.
Mr. Swan said comments made by the new Minister ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2009
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New Cabinet Minister Walter Roban told a white voter never to write to him again after she e-mailed him to complain about the Premier.
Claire Smith told The Royal Gazette last night that she was outraged by his "vitriolic response" after the Minister...
DATE: Jul 06, 2009
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