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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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Premier Ewart Brown's son Kevin last week pleaded not guilty to 33 felony sex counts in Los Angeles.
Associated Press reported that the LA physician denied molesting a dozen women at a hearing on June 17.
Kevin Antario Brown, 38, could face life in p...
DATE: Jun 23, 2009
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The number of years a lawyer must serve at the Bar before they can apply to become a Supreme Court judge has doubled from five to ten.
The increase was approved by MPs on Friday, when they passed the Supreme Court Amendment Act 2009.
The new law — an...
DATE: Jun 22, 2009
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New legislation allowing the incorporation of law firms was approved by MPs on Friday.
Deputy Opposition leader Trevor Moniz said the Bermuda Bar Amendment Act 2009 represented the "30 pieces of silver" owed to the Bermuda Bar Association after it ag...
DATE: Jun 22, 2009
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Government backbencher Neletha Butterfield told the House that the Uighurs controversy had given her one of the most difficult times of her political career.
She said her constituents, including young disaffected men who felt the Island was doing lit...
DATE: Jun 20, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown admitted yesterday that he erred in telling MPs and the media that the four Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay had been deemed a "zero" security risk by Bermuda's Police Commissioner.
Dr. Brown told the House of Assembly he discovered th...
DATE: Jun 20, 2009
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