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The United Bermuda Party says it invited public flak to start its reform process as it looks to bounce back from three successive General Election defeats.
The Royal Gazette reported on Saturday how the Opposition came under fire in a self-commission...
DATE: Jul 08, 2009
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Progressive Labour Party stalwart Reginald Burrows is to be enrolled into the Hall of Fame at Ohio's Wilberforce University.
Mr. Burrows — a former PLP MP and Senator — is recognised for his outstanding services to the university nationally and inter...
DATE: Jul 07, 2009
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Old guard United Bermuda Party politicians need to step aside because they represent the legacy which plunged the UBP to defeat at the last General Election, according to a survey commisssioned by the party.
Younger faces within the party, such as Sh...
DATE: Jul 04, 2009
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Former United Bermuda Party MP Darius Tucker yesterday ruled out joining the Progressive Labour Party.
Mr. Tucker — who is understood to have been taking advice from the PLP and is a golfing friend of Premier Ewart Brown — yesterday spoke to The Roya...
DATE: Jul 04, 2009
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MPs will today debate setting up a new Energy Commission to regulate energy costs.
The group will be formed under the Energy Act 2009, which will get its second reading in the House of Assembly today by Energy Minister Terry Lister.
Currently Belco's...
DATE: Jul 03, 2009
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A loophole preventing some couples benefiting from a stamp duty deal has been closed, Finance Minister Paula Cox announced yesterday.
Bermudians married to non-Bermudians were frozen out of an exemption of stamp duty on homes under $750,000 for first...
DATE: Jul 02, 2009
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Anti-Ewart Brown rally co-organiser Janice Battersbee is a lifelong Progressive Labour Party supporter. She is also black.
She has been left exasperated by Dr. Brown's dismissal of last month's demonstrations as a reflection of angry white United Ber...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown and two travelling companions spent $4,700 of taxpayers' money attending a classic sporting festival last November.
Dr. Brown's press secretary Glenn Jones yesterday would not say how Bermuda benefited from the outing to the State...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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One of the leaders of the 1959 Theatre Boycott believes Premier Ewart Brown was right to break the Constitution by bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to the Island without permission from the UK.
Clifford Maxwell yesterday said Bermuda needs to challe...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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Evelyn Rewan will never get to say thank you to the angel who saved her life on the night her car burst into flames in a crash on South Shore Road.
The best she can do is tell Winston (Yogi) Burrows' family how grateful she is for the gesture that ef...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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