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The United Bermuda Party's defecting MPs won't be Bermuda's third party for long — because their squabbling old party is self-destructing, says pundit Charles Jeffers.
Mr. Jeffers believes people are so fed up with the two traditional parties that Sh...
DATE: Sep 25, 2009
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United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan last night delivered a passionate speech to supporters of his reeling party — but only 13 of them turned up to hear it.
The special meeting in Warwick West had been called after local MP Mark Pettingill quit the U...
DATE: Sep 25, 2009
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Archbishop of York John Sentamu is coming to Bermuda as part of the 400th anniversary celebrations next month.
Rev. Sentamu — the first black Archbishop of York and the second most senior cleric in the Church of England — was born in Uganda where he ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2009
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Breakaway MP Mark Pettingill is squaring up for a fight with two loyalists of his old party he believes are hoping to pinch his seat in the House of Assembly.
United Bermuda Party Senator Jeanne Atherden and interim party chairman Jeff Sousa are spea...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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If dissenting MPs quit their parties and become independents Bermuda's House of Assembly will become a far more effective place, according to community activist Eva Hodgson.
Dr. Hodgson said party politics gets in the way of decision making in many d...
DATE: Sep 22, 2009
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United Bermuda Party Leader Kim Swan yesterday rebuked his outspoken deputy Trevor Moniz, reprimanding him: "This is not the time or forum for politicians to beat up on each other."
Mr. Moniz had publicly accused Mr. Swan of a "huge error" in failing...
DATE: Sep 22, 2009
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The man who banged the drum for change but was left behind by the defecting reformists, the United Bermuda Party is a lonely place for Trevor Moniz right now.
And the deputy leader doesn't expect to be getting many pats on the back from his remaining...
DATE: Sep 21, 2009
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Six resignations last Sunday may have grabbed the headlines, but the United Bermuda Party also lost a string of key party members in the previous few weeks, it emerged yesterday.
Three of the UBP's ten regional chairpersons quit amid frustration at d...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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The anti-Michael Dunkley campaign had just stepped up a notch, with huge Progressive Labour Party adverts plastered across newspapers claiming the then Opposition Leader was championing the start of a brutal regime of hanging and flogging.
The PLP's ...
DATE: Sep 17, 2009
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Some of the United Bermuda Party's remaining MPs no longer have the passion for the battle, Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley declared yesterday.
Sen. Dunkley issued a rallying cry to the last nine UBP MPs standing, telling them to fight for t...
DATE: Sep 17, 2009
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