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Bermudians need to stop being silent and speak up when they know about crime, Government backbenchers insisted on Friday.
Terry Lister told the House of Assembly he couldn't understand why more people weren't calling the confidential Crime Stoppers t...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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Countries around the world celebrate Human Rights Day today — but in Bermuda a basic human right for all citizens is still not on the statute books. The Premier has promised that a long-awaited change to the Human Rights Act to outlaw discrimination ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown has issued a final call for citizens to comment on Government's draft freedom of information law.
Twenty-four submissions have so far been sent to the Cabinet Office on the proposed Public Access to Information (PATI) bill — and D...
DATE: Nov 27, 2009
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The Opposition is to submit a position paper to Cabinet on its proposed freedom of information law — calling for the legislation to be retroactive and to provide protection for whistle-blowers.
John Barritt, the United Bermuda Party's spokesman on le...
DATE: Nov 26, 2009
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Former Premier Alex Scott is urging the public to give their views on a proposed freedom of information law — before it's too late.
Government revealed on Tuesday that a November 30 deadline has now been set for citizens wanting to comment on the dra...
DATE: Nov 20, 2009
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A global human rights organisation has welcomed Bermuda's draft freedom of information bill, calling it a "very progressive document".
But Article 19 yesterday urged Government to revise the proposed legislation to ensure it meets international stand...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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Bermuda could soon follow countless developed democracies around the world by passing a law giving taxpayers the right to access information held by public authorities.
But just how much openness would the proposed public access to information (PATI)...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Bermuda could soon follow countless developed democracies around the world by passing a law giving taxpayers the right to access information held by public authorities.
But just how much openness would the proposed public access to information (PATI)...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Phillip Rego won his first ever award yesterday — but the bighearted charity worker insisted that the accolade was really for all of Bermuda.
The former landscape gardener — who gave up his business a year ago to help poverty-stricken Haitian childre...
DATE: Oct 17, 2009
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Government is being urged to rethink its draft freedom of information bill by critics who say its lack of retroactivity is "nutty", "disturbing" and could render it a "useless" law.
The proposed public access to information (PATI) legislation would n...
DATE: Oct 17, 2009
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