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On August 31 last year the people of the Cayman Islands were granted a right now considered an essential one in democratic countries all over the world.
Parliamentarians in the tiny Caribbean country ¿ which has a population even smaller than Bermuda...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Government spends the largest single chunk of its budget on education ¿ more than $150 million for this financial year alone.
Taxpayers' cash is used, quite rightly, to pay for everything from textbooks and teachers' salaries, to staff wages at the M...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Government spends the largest single chunk of its budget on education – more than $150 million for this financial year alone.
Taxpayers' cash is used, quite rightly, to pay for everything from textbooks and teachers' salaries, to staff wages at the M...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Millions of people all over the world use access to information laws every day to obtain official information, no matter the medium it is stored on.
Citizens in Jamaica have embraced their Access to Information Act since it was fully implemented in J...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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On August 31 last year the people of the Cayman Islands were granted a right now considered an essential one in democratic countries all over the world.
Parliamentarians in the tiny Caribbean country ¿ which has a population even smaller than Bermuda...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
Millions of people all over the world use access to information laws every day to obtain official information, no matter the medium it is stored on.
Citizens in Jamaica have embraced their Access to Information Act since it was fully implemented in J...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Bermuda has more than 100 Government boards, quangos, committees, councils and commissions - funded by the taxpayer.
None, as far as The Royal Gazette can discover, hold open meetings and only a couple issue minutes to the public afterwards.
A Govern...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Alex Scott has a simple message for politicians and civil servants who don't support the introduction of public access to information (PATI) legislation in Bermuda: "The Government serves the public, serves the people. Access to information, especial...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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The Premier's wife was involved in a road crash yesterday afternoon which left a 45-year-old father-of-one in hospital.
Wanda Henton Brown was driving her beige Chrysler PT Cruiser along Pitts Bay Road in Pembroke just before 4 p.m. when the collisio...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Youngsters are aiming to raise thousands of dollars to save two open green spaces from development after adopting the Buy Back Bermuda scheme as their school project.
Former Premier David Saul visited students at St. George's Preparatory School last ...
DATE: Jan 09, 2008
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