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The Progressive Labour Party is setting up a team to catch a mole believed to have been "surreptitiously leaking information to the press".
Party spokesman Wentworth Christopher yesterday said it was "deplorable" that at least one caucus member appea...
DATE: Jul 22, 2010
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Former councillor Carvel Van Putten says he was treated like an outsider in his time with the Corporation of Hamilton — and that reform is long overdue.
Mr. Van Putten believes his background as a Court Street-based black businessman meant his views ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2010
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Some class four insurance companies will have to pay $230,000 each under new legislation designed to cover the costs of raising supervisory standards.
Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday said the Insurance Companies (Special Fees) Act — which introd...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Drivers who don't pay their parking fines will be refused licences at TCD under a modernised ticketing system.
Premier Ewart Brown yesterday said people clock up to $400,000 in unpaid fines every year partly because of a process relying too heavily o...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Former United Bermuda Party leader Grant Gibbons yesterday accused Finance Minister Paula Cox of "absolute silence" over the recent blocking of the Auditor General. Dr. Gibbons said he asked a string of questions relating to Heather Jacobs Matthews' ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown, Minister Zane DeSilva and Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling finally met yesterday — but their talks over the future of the Corporations couldn't have gone much worse.
Few common objectives were identified, according to Cabinet, whic...
DATE: Jul 20, 2010
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Boundary changes which could jeopardise several MPs' seats in the House of Assembly are set to be debated this week.
A redrawn electoral map — thought to give Government MPs Patrice Minors, Dale Butler and Zane DeSilva less safe constituencies — was ...
DATE: Jul 19, 2010
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A bill leading to "death by financial strangulation" for the Corporation of Hamilton could be tabled today after winning approval at a hot-tempered Progressive Labour Party caucus meeting.
The legislation was passed at Wednesday night's Alaska Hall m...
DATE: Jul 16, 2010
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Even the biggest doubters may now start to believe Premier Ewart Brown’s House of Assembly days are coming to an end as the Progressive Labour Party launched its hunt for a local candidate to replace him.
Hot on the heels of the announcement of a far...
DATE: Jul 16, 2010
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MPs are today set to approve legislation allowing vulnerable witnesses to be given new identities — but the United Bermuda Party is sceptical it will work.
People could very easily be tracked down on the small islands they'll be sent to hide under th...
DATE: Jul 16, 2010
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