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Political fallout and antigovernment demonstrations are among the range of security scenarios envisaged by organisers preparing for the 35th America’s Cup. “You have to facilitate peaceful protest, but you also have to facilitate the rights of others...

The Commission of Inquiry will not come to any conclusions on whether criminal activity occurred within the government during the years covered by its investigation into the mishandling of public funds. The final public hearing of the tribunal was to...

The Commission of Inquiry was asked yesterday to consider whether certain arrangements regarding the multimillion dollar Dame Lois Browne-Evans project pointed to “potential infringements or criminal activity”. Narinder Hargun, counsel to the commiss...

Ewart Brown’s lawyer told the Commission of Inquiry yesterday that if a “rule or two had to be bent” in the awarding of government contracts it had “nothing to do with corruption or backhanders” and “everything to do with redressing the balance”. Jer...

Ewart Brown will not have to answer questions from the witness box at the Commission of Inquiry. The former Premier was issued a subpoena requiring him to appear today but his lawyer Jerome Lynch, QC, yesterday successfully argued his right to claim ...

Former Accountant-General, Joyce Hayward, has acknowledged that her department would sometimes just check signatures on capital projects to ensure arrangements were in line with Financial Instructions. Ms Hayward, who held the position between 2004 a...

Ewart Brown will not have to answer questions from the witness box at the Commission of Inquiry. Commission chairman Sir Anthony Evans said the tribunal accepted the claim of the former Premier’s lawyer that he would be “left in some considerable jeo...

Businessman Donal Smith today fired a high-profile lawyer as a row escalated over his refusal to release records demanded by the Commission of Inquiry. Delroy Duncan told the panel he held the financial records on Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd, which...

Oracle Team USA have donated a second batch of 15 Optimist dinghies to the Sandys Boat Club. The boats had been completely refurbished by the Oracle builders after being rescued from the scrap heap, and were officially handed over to the club this af...

An environmental group has hailed the six America’s Cup teams for their efforts protecting Bermuda’s marine habitat. The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce said it had been greatly encouraged by participants’ appreciation of the island’s...