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Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin says she would want to continue serving her constituents — even if the United Bermuda Party "totally disintegrates".
But the Paget West MP told The Royal Gazette she still believes the UBP can bounce back and rec...
DATE: Mar 31, 2010
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Paget West has long been a United Bermuda Party stronghold, with Patricia Gordon-Pamplin comfortably winning each of the past two General Elections.
In 2007, she defeated the Premier's race relations consultant Rolfe Commissiong of the Progressive La...
DATE: Mar 31, 2010
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Dangerous road surfaces in Ferry Reach — highlighted when Up Your Street visited St. George's West last month — are now being put right.
Constituency Two MP Kim Swan praised Works Minister Derrick Burgess for the action which he says will ease safety...
DATE: Mar 31, 2010
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Race consultant Rolfe Commissiong yesterday accused Pembroke MP Ashfield DeVent of failing to attack the real source of Bermuda's problems by focusing on the evils of drugs.
Mr. Commissiong said drugs are a mere symptom of Bermuda's social illness — ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2010
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Since entering the political fray in a 2002 by-election, Pembroke MP Ashfield DeVent has repeatedly warned a failure to take action against drugs would have dire consequences for Bermuda.
Here are some of his public comments:
November 2002: "I guess ...
DATE: Mar 30, 2010
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Back-of-town MP Ashfield DeVent yesterday called for a full-scale House of Assembly debate on Bermuda's drugs laws as he implored politicians to think outside the box on tackling gun violence.
Mr. DeVent believes decriminalising illegal drugs — makin...
DATE: Mar 30, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown is now thought to consider his own backbenchers part of the "Combined Opposition" he believes are out to get him.
Outspoken Progressive Labour Party MPs have joined the media, the United Bermuda Party, Bermuda Democratic Alliance,...
DATE: Mar 27, 2010
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Deputy Premier Paula Cox is no longer the obvious choice to succeed Premier Ewart Brown, according to International Business sources.
Backbencher Terry Lister is now seen as a credible alternative by the industry, which is said to have lost faith in ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2010
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Government will carry out engineering work at Mill Creek to bring an end to years of flooding problems — but has asked land owners to pay for related road improvements .
The road will be raised, the drainage capacity of the creek's sluice gate will b...
DATE: Mar 24, 2010
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The Progressive Labour Party has won comfortably in Pembroke Central at each of the past two General Elections.
However, with a higher proportion of whites than any other PLP seat in Pembroke, Constituency 17 is not considered a stronghold, and was o...
DATE: Mar 24, 2010
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