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Senators have approved a Bill that will allow the Government to switch to an online version of its official gazette.
Government reform minister Lovitta Foggo told the House of Assembly this month that the move away from newspaper advertising would re...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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Bermuda’s Constitution is unfinished because it failed to give human rights protection to women and gay people, One Bermuda Alliance senator Andrew Simons said yesterday.
Mr Simons told the Senate that there was a “certain irony” to David Burt’s call...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
A court bid to ensure gay people in Bermuda do not lose the right to marry was a “big win” whatever the outcome of the case, according to the leaders of an LGBTQ charity.
Adrian Hartnett-Beasley and Zakiya Lord, deputy chairpersons of OutBermuda, tol...
DATE: May 25, 2018
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Adrian Hartnett-Beasley was only 9 when his church in Bermuda voted on whether gay people should be welcomed as members and if they should be eligible to be ministers.
He said: “I didn’t understand the complexities of what was being asked of us and c...
DATE: May 24, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
A child sex abuse prevention charity has cleared another hurdle in its bid to fight the release of a high-risk paedophile from jail.
Saving Children and Revealing Secrets applied to the Supreme Court for a judicial review of the decision to release J...
DATE: May 23, 2018
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A judge has rejected businessman Wendall Brown’s attempt to have a government lawsuit against him and one of his companies thrown out.
The civil action accused Mr Brown and Zane DeSilva, a Progressive Labour Party MP, of profiting from their former p...
DATE: May 18, 2018
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Businessman Wendall Brown asked a judge yesterday to throw out a lawsuit brought against him and one of his companies by the former One Bermuda Alliance government.
The civil action accused Mr Brown and Zane DeSilva, a Progressive Labour Party MP, of...
DATE: May 10, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against three former trustees of Port Royal Golf Course by the One Bermuda Alliance government is back on the Supreme Court list.
A hearing on the case is scheduled to take place before Puisne Judge Stephen Hellman...
DATE: May 09, 2018
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David Burt is expected to tell MPs today whether Bermuda will take legal action against the UK over a move compelling the island to make its company ownership registry public by the end of 2020.
The Premier and Minister of Finance is likely to make a...
DATE: May 04, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
Former finance minister Bob Richards has accused British MPs of betraying an inherent bias by forcing Bermuda and the other Overseas Territories to be transparent on company ownership.
Mr Richards described the British Parliament’s decision on Tuesda...
DATE: May 04, 2018
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