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Dozens of companies across Bermuda have lined up in support of same-sex marriage and joined a list of “diversity friendly” businesses.
A total of 58 businesses — from bars and luxury hotels to law firms, global banks and brokerages — have signed up, ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2018
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A government board did not use the “required rigour and efficiency” to find records when asked to disclose the minutes of its meetings under a public access to information request, the Information Commissioner has ruled.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said in a...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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People who campaigned against marriage equality will come to feel “shame and regret” in the future, former Attorney-General Mark Pettingill predicted yesterday.
Mr Pettingill, who represented gay Bermudian Rod Ferguson in a successful Supreme Court b...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda could show how progressive it is on a world stage if it allowed a Supreme Court ruling in favour of marriage equality to stand, a human rights lawyer said yesterday.
Venous Memari, managing director of civil rights group the Centre for Justic...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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A new law to ban same-sex marriage but give gay and straight couples the ability to enter into civil unions comes into effect today.
The controversial Domestic Partnership Act 2018 becomes law as marriage-equality campaigners await a ruling from the ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2018
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More information should be shared with taxpayers about financial support being offered to entrepreneurs and small businesses by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, the Senate heard yesterday.
Crystal Caesar, Junior Minister of Home Affairs,...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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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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Politics
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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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Same-Sex Marriage
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Sam Strangeways