2853 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "News"
The Government has used controversial cannabis legislation as part of a breakaway move from the UK, a shadow minister claimed yesterday.
Michael Dunkley, the shadow minister of national security, said that drug reform had been used to pick a fight wi...
DATE: Feb 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Teachers went back to school as part of a two-day professional development workshop designed to boost skills.
The teaching staff alternated between the front of class and playing pupils in an exercise designed to improve instructional methods.
The wo...
DATE: Feb 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Records of a Parliamentary inquiry set up to look at the use of pepper spray at a 2016 House of Assembly demonstration will not see the light of day for 30 years.
The news came after a decision to refuse to release records of a joint select committee...
DATE: Dec 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda is poised to ask for more power to run its own affairs after the British government allowed the island to draw up “areas for constitutional reform”, the Throne Speech has revealed.
The speech, the blueprint for business for the new session o...
DATE: Nov 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The decision not to charge two police officers with a serious sex assault on a male colleague came under the spotlight at a Supreme Court judicial review yesterday.
The court heard that Larry Mussenden, the Director of Public Prosecutions, decided no...
DATE: Oct 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A $20,000 donation was made to a non-profit organisation that provides helps for people with special needs.
WindReach received the funding boost from Third Point Reinsurance to support its life skills and therapeutic riding programmes, which benefit ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A dozen House of Assembly seats could have been won by the One Bermuda Alliance and two by the Free Democratic Movement in last week’s General Election under a proportional representation voting system, a political pundit has claimed.
Phil Perinchief...
DATE: Oct 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A schoolboy with severe autism has been refused permission to repeat a school year despite backing from his teacher and doctor.
His parents said their son had the mental age of a five-year-old and, because of disruption to his education caused by th...
DATE: Oct 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A top businessman and behind the scenes strategist when the former United Bermuda Party governed the island has died. Edgar Wilkinson was 90.
Mr Wilkinson was also a board member at the Bermuda Monetary Authority in the 1980s.
His businesses included...
DATE: Sep 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A decision to ask Supreme Court judges to take a pay cut struck at the heart of a vital democratic principle, a lawyer has claimed.
Victoria Greening, of Resolution Chambers, said that the Bermuda Constitution Order 1968 ruled that some roles — inclu...
DATE: Sep 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
