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Ewart Brown will not have to answer questions from the witness box at the Commission of Inquiry.
The former Premier was issued a subpoena requiring him to appear today but his lawyer Jerome Lynch, QC, yesterday successfully argued his right to claim ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2016
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Ewart Brown will not have to answer questions from the witness box at the Commission of Inquiry.
Commission chairman Sir Anthony Evans said the tribunal accepted the claim of the former Premier’s lawyer that he would be “left in some considerable jeo...
DATE: Nov 29, 2016
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Businessman Donal Smith today fired a high-profile lawyer as a row escalated over his refusal to release records demanded by the Commission of Inquiry.
Delroy Duncan told the panel he held the financial records on Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd, which...
DATE: Nov 29, 2016
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Leaders of Bermuda’s African Methodist Episcopal Church are expecting a decision shortly from immigration authorities on the Reverend Nicholas Tweed’s work permit.
Mr Tweed, pastor at St Paul AME Church, vocal critic of the Bermuda Government and a p...
DATE: Nov 25, 2016
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Kevina Santucci will celebrate Thanksgiving today for many reasons but primarily because she is simply grateful to be alive.
The same goes for her father, Chaplain Kevin Santucci, who will give thanks to God for his and his daughter’s recoveries from...
DATE: Nov 24, 2016
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Former Attorney-General Mark Pettingill claims newly passed legislation aimed at preventing corruption in the casino industry is “superfluous” and could impact his business.
The government backbencher spoke out against a section of the Casino Gaming ...
DATE: Nov 23, 2016
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The island’s three banks have told the Government they “won’t bank casinos”, according to the chairman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission.
Alan Dunch told a gathering of business leaders yesterday that the island’s fledgeling casino industry may...
DATE: Nov 18, 2016
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Child safety campaigner Sheelagh Cooper is calling for a “dangerous offender” law to ensure paedophiles and others convicted of sex offences have to be supervised upon release from prison.
Mark Pettingill, chairman of the joint parliamentary select c...
DATE: Nov 18, 2016
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An elevator at a government-owned nursing home for seniors has been broken since May leaving residents “stuck” in their rooms, it was alleged in Parliament yesterday.
Opposition Senator Renee Ming told the Upper House that the lift was broken at the ...
DATE: Nov 17, 2016
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Information commissioner Gita Gutierrez has issued her first order compelling a senior civil servant to release a public access to information decision.
Ms Gutierrez filed the order at the Supreme Court against the permanent secretary at the Ministry...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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