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could be set to do an encore -- as head of the Commission of Inquiry into the Bermuda Police drugs squad.
Sources said retired Appeal Court judge Telford Georges was yesterday being considered to take charge of the sensitive inquiry.
Deputy Governor ...
DATE: Jul 10, 1997
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Governor to postpone elections or referendums in the event of an "extreme emergency''.
The Parliamentary Election Amendment Act -- moved in the wake of the delay in the 1995 Independence Referendum -- sailed through its second and third readings in t...
DATE: Jul 08, 1997
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interfering with the liberty of the Press...I think it is a great deal better to err a little bit on the side of having too much discussion and having too virulent language used by the Press, rather than err on the side of having them not say what th...
DATE: Jul 05, 1997
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A controversial bill to allow Government to postpone elections in the event of natural disasters or hurricanes is set to come back to the House of Assembly today.
In a surprise move last Friday, the Progressive Labour Party won a vote against the bil...
DATE: Jul 02, 1997
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claimed could enable it to put off an election if opinion polls were unfavourable.
Late in the debate, Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness moved to delete a clause in the Parliamentary Election Amendment Act which would enable the Governor on the ad...
DATE: Jun 28, 1997
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A controversial amendment to the employment laws for non-Bermudians is set to ensure a stormy session in the House of Assembly today.
And MPs are likely to sit into the early hours of tomorrow to discuss the amendment -- claimed by Opposition Labour ...
DATE: Jun 27, 1997
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Government will be able to postpone elections in the face of natural disasters or wars if a new piece of legislation tabled in the House of Assembly becomes law.
The new legislation, an amendment to the existing Parliamentary Election Act 1978, allow...
DATE: Jun 17, 1997
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A bid by former Governor Lord Waddington to win full British citizenship for Bermudians and the UK's other dependant territories was knocked back in the House of Lords last night.
Lord Waddington -- in his first speech in the Lords in five years -- s...
DATE: Jun 12, 1997
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"post-Hong Kong'' will soon be spelled out by new British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
But last night a British Parliamentary expert on Foreign Affairs said there were unlikely to be any major changes in the near future.
It is doubtful the current p...
DATE: Jun 05, 1997
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appears to have called for the resignation of the Permanent Secretary for Education, Dr. Marion Robinson. Sen. Scott has made the call in the wake of an audit of Bermuda's education system carried out by Professor William Poston which found significa...
DATE: Jun 04, 1997
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