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Calls for the Corporation of Hamilton to open its doors to the public are nothing new — but for years they appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
The elected body meets every other Tuesday behind closed doors to discuss the affairs of the city and how i...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Cabinet could be asked to approve drafting instructions for public access to information legislation "very, very soon", according to the civil servant who helped write Bermuda's discussion paper on the topic.
Kimberley McKeown, a policy analyst at Go...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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On August 31 last year the people of the Cayman Islands were granted a right now considered an essential one in democratic countries all over the world.
Parliamentarians in the tiny Caribbean country ¿ which has a population even smaller than Bermuda...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Government spends the largest single chunk of its budget on education – more than $150 million for this financial year alone.
Taxpayers' cash is used, quite rightly, to pay for everything from textbooks and teachers' salaries, to staff wages at the M...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Millions of people all over the world use access to information laws every day to obtain official information, no matter the medium it is stored on.
Citizens in Jamaica have embraced their Access to Information Act since it was fully implemented in J...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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The Premier's wife was involved in a road crash yesterday afternoon which left a 45-year-old father-of-one in hospital.
Wanda Henton Brown was driving her beige Chrysler PT Cruiser along Pitts Bay Road in Pembroke just before 4 p.m. when the collisio...
DATE: Jan 18, 2008
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Youngsters are aiming to raise thousands of dollars to save two open green spaces from development after adopting the Buy Back Bermuda scheme as their school project.
Former Premier David Saul visited students at St. George's Preparatory School last ...
DATE: Jan 09, 2008
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A serving Police officer has launched an Internet blog calling on the community to "be courageous" and unite against violence and crime.
P.c. Allan Palmer, who is originally from St. Vincent and is understood to have been a policeman in Bermuda for a...
DATE: Jan 08, 2008
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Police are remaining tight-lipped about an investigation into allegations that cheques from a company part owned by new Progressive Labour Party MP Zane DeSilva were forged.
The Royal Gazette revealed last month that a complaint was made on behalf of...
DATE: Jan 05, 2008
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Ellen-Kate Horton sent an e-mail to public school principals, teachers and Ministry of Education staff on Friday, December 21, at 4.31 p.m.
"Good Evening everyone," she wrote. "Earlier today, the permanent secretaries received appointments. I am extr...
DATE: Jan 04, 2008
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