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Bermuda’s citizens are being urged by Greenrock to turn the lights out this Saturday and head to Hamilton to celebrate Earth Hour.
Organisers held a press conference yesterday to detail all the activities taking place at City Hall to mark the annual ...
DATE: Mar 22, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The charitable status of a group campaigning to stop same-sex marriage and civil partnerships in Bermuda will be up for review in two weeks.
Preserve Marriage has applied to renew the probationary status it was granted a year ago by the Charity Commi...
DATE: Mar 22, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
One Bermuda Alliance MP Mark Pettingill resigned from the governing party yesterday and said he would probably retire from politics at the next General Election.
Mr Pettingill, the member for Warwick North East, told reporters he had a long meeting w...
DATE: Mar 17, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The resignation of MP Mark Pettingill has left the One Bermuda Alliance with a “tenuous” grip on power, sources claimed last night, and could prompt a vote of no confidence in the Government.
Mr Pettingill announced yesterday morning that “after a lo...
DATE: Mar 17, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Four highly paid civil servants who came under fire from the Commission of Inquiry were silent yesterday on the panel’s recommendation for an “urgent review” into their abilities.
Derrick Binns, Cherie Whitter, Marc Telemaque and Anthony Manders — al...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Event
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Charity Commissioners have finally released information revealing why more than 30 people objected to Preserve Marriage becoming a charity.
With less than a month to go before the group’s probationary one-year charitable status runs out, the cont...
DATE: Mar 13, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The organisation tasked with investigating concerns about doctors in Bermuda is not looking into allegations made against Ewart Brown and other local physicians in a civil lawsuit filed by the Government.
No complaints relating to the allegations hav...
DATE: Mar 04, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Employees at a security firm where a female employee was sexually assaulted by her boss are subjected to “unprovoked attacks” to test their self-defence skills, a tribunal heard.
Lawyer Sara Tucker told a Human Rights Commission panel that though it ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Cabinet Minister Zane DeSilva is accused of telling six lies to the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee when it quizzed him last year about the $24.5 million refurbishment of Port Royal Golf Course.
A lawsuit filed by Attorney-General Trev...
DATE: Mar 03, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Commission of Inquiry has given Michael Dunkley a copy of its final report into the misuse of public funds.
The Premier said in a statement today that the document was being “formatted for public dissemination” and would then be posted online.
He...
DATE: Mar 02, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways