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“Critical” guidelines to ensure civil servants deal properly with public access to information requests have yet to be released, more than two years after the law came into effect.
The absence of the “practice codes” was flagged up by information com...
DATE: Apr 21, 2017
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A charity born almost a century ago to help “needy little ones” announced yesterday that it would close and, in doing so, would give its headquarters to another organisation which works to strengthen Bermuda’s families.
The Sunshine League said it wa...
DATE: Apr 20, 2017
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Direct threats were made to officers involved in policing the December 2 protest outside Parliament and so their identities must be kept secret, according to Michael DeSilva.
The Commissioner of Police said that was one reason an operational order fo...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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Charity commissioners are still deciding whether to recommend the renewal of Preserve Marriage’s charitable status, which ran out on April 5.
The Royal Gazette understands that the committee failed to reach a decision at its last meeting and will loo...
DATE: Apr 13, 2017
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Members of a small Muslim movement in Bermuda have launched a campaign to raise awareness about the real meaning of Islam after terror attacks around the world.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community says the aim of its True Islam campaign is to clarify misc...
DATE: Apr 07, 2017
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Michael Dunkley refused to say yesterday whether the $1 million Commission of Inquiry report he ordered would be tabled in Parliament for MPs to debate.
The Premier’s spokeswoman sidestepped a question on the issue, telling The Royal Gazette: “The re...
DATE: Mar 24, 2017
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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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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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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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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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