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Bermuda's Public Accounts Committee will meet in public for the first time this Thursday.
It means people will finally be able to observe as the group, comprising five MPs, checks whether taxpayers' money is being spent properly.
For years, the Unite...
DATE: Jun 29, 2010
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MPs will have the right to invite the public into their committee meetings following a change in House of Assembly rules given the provisional go-ahead yesterday.
It means groups like the Public Accounts Committee — which checks whether taxpayers' mo...
DATE: Mar 23, 2010
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Public access to information (PATI) legislation will be tabled in the fall, Premier Ewart Brown announced yesterday.
The Premier said a draft bill was currently being finalised after Cabinet had looked at examples of PATI in the Caribbean, UK and Eur...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan yesterday called for Premier Ewart Brown to break his silence on faith-based tourism as fears grow that Andre Curtis' unpaid bills are damaging the Island's international reputation.
Preachers from the UK and US have compla...
DATE: May 01, 2008
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Government has finally released a report into the safety of land at the former baselands at Southside where Agent Orange was allegedly dumped and burned.
For more than two months, campaigners have been calling for the document to be made public so re...
DATE: Feb 25, 2008
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The Progressive Labour Party has questioned whether public access to information is necessary.
However, the PLP newsletter article which raises the question urges The Royal Gazette to call for a press council with the same vigour it has advocated for...
DATE: Feb 25, 2008
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Faith-based tourism boss Andre Curtis has one month to boost his visitors numbers to 2,200 for this financial year — or face forfeiting $20,000 of his payout of taxpayers' money.
The total tourists for the first 11 months of 2007-08 is probably no mo...
DATE: Feb 22, 2008
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The Premier's office yesterday failed again to alleviate fears expats will be excluded from free rides on public transport.
In Friday's Budget statement, Finance Minister Paula Cox, referring to the Progressive Labour Party's high-profile General Ele...
DATE: Feb 20, 2008
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People will get the chance to hear experts' views on good governance at a Caribbean Ombudsman Association conference being hosted in Bermuda.
Ombudsman Arlene Brock says the event is a coup for the Island as it features a string of impressive speaker...
DATE: Feb 14, 2008
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A former Medical Clinic user has outlined how keeping patients in the dark contributed to anger over the facility's controversial closure.
Walter Howes, a homeless patient for ten years, was among many campaigners who complained people were not being...
DATE: Feb 12, 2008
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