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Just one in ten people has a favourable opinion of the United Bermuda Party, according to a survey commissioned by the Progressive Labour Party.
The UBP had a ten percent favourability — with 55 percent of people having an unfavourable opinion — in t...
DATE: Oct 14, 2009
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The six men who quit the United Bermuda Party to form their own party will not be going back — no matter what promises future leader hopeful Bob Richards makes.
Former UBP Senator Michael Fahy said the breakaway politicians are determined to continue...
DATE: Oct 14, 2009
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The United Bermuda Party's dream tank is empty — and Bob Richards says he's the man to fill it back up again.
For too long, the UBP has concentrated too hard on what Government is doing and not enough on telling its own story, according to the man ho...
DATE: Oct 13, 2009
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards yesterday confirmed he wants to take over from Kim Swan as leader of the United Bermuda Party as soon as possible.
Mr. Richards told The Royal Gazette young MPs who quit the party in frustration last month had see...
DATE: Oct 13, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown's popularity has climbed dramatically since reaching rock bottom after the Uighurs affair, according to a poll commissioned by the Progressive Labour Party.
The Premier has a favourability rating of 43 percent in the survey by Ame...
DATE: Oct 13, 2009
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards today confirmed he plans to take over the leadership of the United Bermuda Party from Kim Swan as soon as possible.
Mr. Richards told The Royal Gazette he has put together a plan he believes can bring the ailing p...
DATE: Oct 12, 2009
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United Bermuda Party Leader Kim Swan says he is pleased a leadership challenge is likely in the near future.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards is understood to have approached Mr. Swan to tell him he's planning to oust him as leader of the struggl...
DATE: Oct 12, 2009
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A man who imported about $180,000 worth of drugs into Bermuda has been sent to prison for eight years.
Marco Perinchief, 36, of Broom Street, Sandys, had nearly 900 grams of cannabis and nearly 500 grams of cocaine in packages inside his duffel bag a...
DATE: Oct 10, 2009
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He served in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, in Moscow during a coup attempt on Mikhail Gorbachev and as a press secretary in Angola where there was little free press.
But new Deputy Governor David Arkley doesn't expect life to be easy just b...
DATE: Oct 09, 2009
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Former United Bermuda Party MP Mark Pettingill says his old colleagues should keep their noses out of Bermuda's foreign policy — like they told Premier Ewart Brown to do.
Mr. Pettingill, who quit the UBP last month, said it was "constitutionally wron...
DATE: Oct 09, 2009
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