36 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Other" author Sam Strangeways
A set of court recordings that judges claimed did not exist and which detectives failed to find during a “full and proper investigation” have been uncovered during an inquiry by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
A group of litigants who have bee...
DATE: Mar 11, 2019
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Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingly clean” gambling jurisdiction if the industry regulator is not upfront about its own finances, overseas experts have warned.
Gene Johnson, a gaming consultant, told The Royal Gazette that a...
DATE: Feb 02, 2019
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Critics at home and overseas continued yesterday to pour scorn over a plan to bring the island’s casino regulatory body under ministerial control.
The Casino Gaming Amendment Act 2017, expected to be debated and approved in Parliament early next mont...
DATE: Nov 24, 2017
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Women from Bermuda will be among hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the Women’s March on Washington tomorrow, on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Journalist Clare O’Connor and student Kayley Gibbons both plan to attend the rall...
DATE: Jan 20, 2017
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Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Island’s Westminster system was traditionally...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Ombudsman Arlene Brock is to help to come up with a code of ethics for fellow members of her profession in the Caribbean.
She was appointed to a committee of experts to develop the code for the Caribbean Ombudsman Association (CAROA) at its sixth bie...
DATE: Nov 16, 2010
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Government has defended its controversial media council bill, claiming it is a "bit of a red herring" whether such a regulatory body is enshrined in law or not.
Premier Ewart Brown, the Minister responsible for the proposed legislation, did not comme...
DATE: May 19, 2010
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The US has "closed the file" on its former baselands in Bermuda and is highly unlikely to ever reopen discussions on the clean-up of the land, according to the author of a new book.
Don Grearson, whose 450-page 'USS Bermuda — The Rise and Fall of an ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2009
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Gregory Slayton will celebrate July 4 in Bermuda for the last time this year — and the US Consul General is hoping to go out with a bang.
He will join 3,000 others celebrating American Independence Day this evening (Saturday) from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. a...
DATE: Jul 04, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown yesterday admitted that he may not have brought four Guantánamo Bay detainees to Bermuda had he anticipated the "firestorm" it would provoke.
But he told MPs during a speech in the House of Assembly that he still firmly believed i...
DATE: Jun 13, 2009
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