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The One Bermuda Alliance will give churches the legal right to refuse to conduct same-sex marriages if it is re-elected.
The party’s platform states: “We will introduce legislation to protect churches from being forced to perform any services that ar...
DATE: Jul 17, 2017
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Sam Strangeways
Finance minister Bob Richards hit out at the Opposition’s economic track record at a press conference yesterday.
He slammed the Progressive Labour Party for overspending its annual budget for five consecutive years, to the tune of $418 million, compa...
DATE: Jul 11, 2017
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Sam Strangeways
Pembroke West Central could be one of the seats that swings the election on July 18, with the incumbent MP David Burt having a majority of less than 100.
The Progressive Labour Party leader is going head-to-head with the One Bermuda Alliance’s Nick K...
DATE: Jul 07, 2017
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Sam Strangeways
The two candidates vying for the seat of Pembroke West Central appear to have much in common: both are highly educated, dynamic young men in their thirties who run businesses and have the energy to spend their spare time knocking on doors in their co...
DATE: Jul 07, 2017
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Sam Strangeways
Former litigants who campaigned for Bermuda’s Court of Appeal to release recordings of its hearings have welcomed a Privy Council ruling on the issue.
The judgment, concerning a case from Mauritius, considered whether individuals convicted of crimes ...
DATE: Jul 06, 2017
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The findings of the Commission of Inquiry have prompted police to look into “new areas of inquiry” about how public money was handled under the last Progressive Labour Party government.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Police Service told this newspaper t...
DATE: Jul 05, 2017
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A police investigation launched in the wake of the Jetgate scandal remains active after three years, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Detectives from Bermuda Police Service’s financial crime unit began their investigation into a bank account set up by a...
DATE: Jun 28, 2017
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Opponents of same-sex marriage have filed an application to appeal against the landmark Supreme Court ruling which allowed gay couples to wed in Bermuda. The request for permission to appeal the May 5 judgment is understood to have been made to the R...
DATE: Jun 28, 2017
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A former president of Pembroke Rotary Club has been elected district governor for Rotary district 7230 in the United States. Barbara Harris Edwards told The Royal Gazette she was the first woman from Bermuda to be given the position.
“I’m very honour...
DATE: Jun 23, 2017
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Bermuda’s national youth jump rope team is gearing up to compete on the global stage next month.
The Bermy Bouncers will take part in the World Jump Rope Championships in Orlando, Florida, from July 2-9, before heading to Seattle for an invita...
DATE: Jun 22, 2017
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