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The executive director of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission quit his job after he decided the island’s leaders lacked the “political will” to keep the industry corruption-free.
Richard Schuetz, in a letter to commission chairman Alan Dunch seen by...
DATE: Nov 23, 2017
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The Government has been ordered to pay costs to the couple who won the right for gay people to marry in Bermuda.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons ruled that all of Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche’s legal costs should be paid in relation to their cla...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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A young Bermudian man who won the right for gay people to marry on the island is to meet the government MP behind a bid to have the decision reversed.
Winston Godwin-DeRoche, whose successful challenge to the law in the Supreme Court led to a landmar...
DATE: Sep 01, 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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Government MP Wayne Furbert will bring his Bill to outlaw gay marriage back to Parliament in September — and he expects it to pass.
Mr Furbert told The Royal Gazette that same-sex marriage was a key issue in the General Election, with the Progressive...
DATE: Jul 28, 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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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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