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Wayne Furbert’s bid to reverse the legalisation of gay marriage could put the United Kingdom in breach of its international obligations, according to lawyer Mark Pettingill.
Mr Pettingill, one of the lawyers who successfully litigated the case that l...
DATE: Sep 08, 2017
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Government backbencher Wayne Furbert has backed out of a meeting with a young Bermudian who won the right for gay people to marry on the island.
Mr Furbert was to meet with Winston Godwin-DeRoche and others from the LGBT community after the 27-year-o...
DATE: Sep 06, 2017
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Preserve Marriage has become a charity again after home affairs minister Walton Brown overturned a decision to refuse it charitable status.
The group, which opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions, first gained charitable status in 2016 but had be...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017
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Mahesh Reddy’s medical credentials were called into question by detectives but later confirmed as acceptable by the island’s registration body for doctors, according to records released under public access to information.
Dr Reddy, medical director o...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Taxpayers will pick up the tab for a lawsuit launched by the One Bermuda Alliance administration and likely to be dropped under the new Progressive Labour Party government.
The civil suit, filed in Massachusetts against the Lahey Clinic, is expected...
DATE: Jul 27, 2017
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If voters want a succinct definition of good governance, they can look no farther than the platforms of the One Bermuda Alliance and the Progressive Labour Party.
The ruling party views it as a “system of governance that builds transparency and accou...
DATE: Jul 17, 2017
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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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