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Bermuda could soon follow countless developed democracies around the world by passing a law giving taxpayers the right to access information held by public authorities.
But just how much openness would the proposed public access to information (PATI)...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Bermuda's proposed freedom of information law would give the public scant access to the real workings of government, according to lawyer Timothy Marshall.
The draft public access to information (PATI) bill says records would be exempt from disclosure...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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A long-awaited freedom of information bill was last night unveiled by Government and could become law during the next parliamentary session.
Premier Ewart Brown announced in a televised speech that the draft public access to information (PATI) legisl...
DATE: Oct 16, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
More than a dozen Bermuda Regiment soldiers have made allegations of sexual abuse or harassment in the last two decades, The Royal Gazette has discovered.
But requests for information to determine the true scale of the problem at Warwick Camp have be...
DATE: Sep 15, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
Parliamentary committees will remain closed to the public if new rules for the House of Assembly are approved by MPs in November.
The draft Standing Orders — drawn up by Deputy Speaker Dame Jennifer Smith and Opposition MP John Barritt — state that m...
DATE: Sep 09, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
Public access to information (PATI) legislation will be tabled in the fall, Premier Ewart Brown announced yesterday.
The Premier said a draft bill was currently being finalised after Cabinet had looked at examples of PATI in the Caribbean, UK and Eur...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Tim Smith
The Premier's decision to cut Government contact with this newspaper has attracted further coverage from abroad.
The Guardian newspaper and the website 'Index on Censorship' both highlighted Ewart Brown's restriction on the flow of information to the...
DATE: May 13, 2009
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Government has refused to share with the public the contents of a letter from the British Prime Minister warning Bermuda to be more tax transparent — or the Island's reply.
Gordon Brown sent individual letters to several British overseas territories ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
The Opposition Senate Leader has called on Government to provide more transparency to taxpayers in an era of recession.
"All Bermudians, and people throughout the world, expect governments to be fiscally responsible and to manage our economy in the b...
DATE: Mar 17, 2009
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Government backbencher Walter Lister has said he is certain the parliamentary committee which scrutinises public spending will soon stop meeting in secret.
The veteran PLP MP, who sits on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), told The Royal Gazette: "...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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