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A new law reducing the cost to operate a limousine service in Bermuda was passed in the Senate yesterday.
The Motor Car Amendment Act (No. 3) will reduce the limousine permit fee from $100,000 to $50,000 to allow more than the current two companies t...
DATE: Jul 09, 2009
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Gregory Slayton will celebrate July 4 in Bermuda for the last time this year — and the US Consul General is hoping to go out with a bang.
He will join 3,000 others celebrating American Independence Day this evening (Saturday) from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. a...
DATE: Jul 04, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
One of the leaders of the 1959 Theatre Boycott believes Premier Ewart Brown was right to break the Constitution by bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to the Island without permission from the UK.
Clifford Maxwell yesterday said Bermuda needs to challe...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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Seventy-seven percent of voters are opposed to Independence according to a recent survey released yesterday.
And 33 percent of Bermudians say the economy is good or excellent.
Conducted by Profiles of Bermuda, the poll canvassed 401 registered voters...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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Seventy-seven percent of voters are opposed to Independence according to a recent survey released today.
The figures are a climb on those in the lead-in to the 2007 General Election, when two-thirds of voters, or 64 percent, were against Bermuda brea...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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MPs passed a bill to protect magistrates from lawsuits Friday.
The Magistrates Amendment Act 2009 was approved in the House of Assembly, together with the Law Reform Commission Act 2009 and Motor Car Amendment (No. 3) Act 2009.
The Magistrates Amendm...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown's handling of the Guantánamo Bay affair will be subject of another debate after Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley tabled a motion yesterday.
Sen. Dunkley's motion reads"That the Senate take note of the process by which four...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Tim Smith
Sustainability group Greenrock has praised the potential of proposed new energy legislation but said it still raises lots of questions.
Minister of Energy Terry Lister said last Thursday he would table the Energy Act 2009 which proposed a new regulat...
DATE: Jun 22, 2009
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
This is a continuation of the House of Assembly report of the lengthy debate that started last Friday and ran overnight into Saturday as MPs spoke on the UBP's motion of no confidence in the Government led by the Premier. A vote at the end of the deb...
DATE: Jun 22, 2009
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan kicked off the debate with an impassioned speech in which he called on MPs from both sides to end Dr. Ewart Brown’s authoritarian, autocratic leadership.
MPs were debating the motion put forward by the UBP that ‘this Honour...
DATE: Jun 20, 2009
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