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* "Our record will show that PATI legislation is something we have previously examined and we plan to keep it in play during our next term." Premier Ewart Brown in December 2007, shortly before the General Election.
* "Government ought to be all outs...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown welcomes Sunshine Week and the principle of open government it represents — but last night he was unwilling to say when Bermuda would get a public access to information law.
Dr. Brown has pledged his commitment to PATI previously ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan claimed last night that two airlines cancelled seasonal flights to the Island from the US due to "poor projections for Bermuda tourism".
Mr. Swan said that though escalating fuel costs were given as the reason for Delta Air...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Thunder may have shook much of the Island yesterday but the heavens shone on the annual Palm Sunday Walk.
Organisers rejoiced at the near-perfect weather which saw 1,500-plus people turn out for the five-mile jaunt around Hamilton Parish.
Walkers — i...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley said yesterday that discussion was needed on whether Bermuda should legalise gambling.
Sen. Dunkley told the Upper House during its Budget debate on tourism that other jurisdictions appeared to be benefiting f...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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Corporation of Hamilton alderman William Black claimed last night his colleagues were "just out to hang me" after he was deposed as Deputy Mayor.
The 70-year-old former policeman was demoted by Mayor Sutherland Madeiros and replaced with alderman Cou...
DATE: Mar 14, 2008
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Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley is calling for a bi-partisan parliamentary committee to be set up to oversee the introduction of public access to information legislation.
Sen. Dunkley tabled a motion in the Upper Chamber yesterday which will...
DATE: Mar 13, 2008
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Politicians in Bermuda should learn to live with the cut and thrust of public life and accept that they will be criticised in the media, British MPs told a meeting last night.
Three members of the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, visiting t...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
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Human rights, transparency, accountability and standards of governance were some of the issues raised last night when the public met with British MPs conducting an inquiry into the UK's Overseas Territories.
They were told about the failure of Bermud...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
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Students got a taste of poverty at an unusual banquet where hunger was on the menu.
A group of youngsters at Bermuda High School for Girls organised the "hunger banquet" to demonstrate that not everybody in the world is lucky enough to get as much to...
DATE: Mar 11, 2008
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