48 results returned for search: "independence AND " author Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Island’s Westminster system was traditionally...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Robert Mugabe - What Happened?
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The title of this disturbing documentary says it all. How did Zimbabwean liberation hero Robert Mugabe turn into one of the world’s most oppressive and hated leaders, an internationally-reviled auto...
DATE: Apr 18, 2012
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Arts & Entertainment
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Sam Strangeways
Ombudsman Arlene Brock has insisted she was entirely within her rights to launch an inquiry into special development orders (SDOs), despite Environment Minister Marc Bean describing her decision to do so as “peculiar”.
And she told The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2012
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Environment
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Sam Strangeways
Former Premier Sir David Gibbons has told a Caribbean news magazine that Bermuda’s Government is “simply not competent” and that the Island’s reinsurance industry is “very healthy”.
In an interview published on Friday in Caribbean Journal, the former...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Veteran Government backbencher Walter Lister has suggested a Bermudian should do Governor Sir Richard Gozney’s job and would probably come “at a better price”.
He spoke out in the House of Assembly after fellow Progressive Labour Party MP Marc Bean c...
DATE: May 30, 2011
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Shadow Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last night asked Premier Paula Cox to name the Cabinet consultants who have had their services axed after “unnecessarily feeding at the trough”.
The Opposition MP applauded the fact that the Cabine...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ombudsman Arlene Brock is to help to come up with a code of ethics for fellow members of her profession in the Caribbean.
She was appointed to a committee of experts to develop the code for the Caribbean Ombudsman Association (CAROA) at its sixth bie...
DATE: Nov 16, 2010
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Government has defended its controversial media council bill, claiming it is a "bit of a red herring" whether such a regulatory body is enshrined in law or not.
Premier Ewart Brown, the Minister responsible for the proposed legislation, did not comme...
DATE: May 19, 2010
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Sam Strangeways
The US has "closed the file" on its former baselands in Bermuda and is highly unlikely to ever reopen discussions on the clean-up of the land, according to the author of a new book.
Don Grearson, whose 450-page 'USS Bermuda — The Rise and Fall of an ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2009
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Gregory Slayton will celebrate July 4 in Bermuda for the last time this year — and the US Consul General is hoping to go out with a bang.
He will join 3,000 others celebrating American Independence Day this evening (Saturday) from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. a...
DATE: Jul 04, 2009
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