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Independent members of the Boundaries Commission played a crucial role in the final outcome of the body's report on future electoral arrangements for Bermuda.
Without their input the Commission may well have released a minority report from one of the...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday tabled in the House of Assembly the report of the Boundaries Commission recommending the number of constituencies and boundaries of a revamped single seat electoral system, and set October 11 as the date the report wi...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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Premier Jennifer Smith is to have crisis talks with Health Minister Nelson Bascome and Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown after the pair were accused in the Bermuda Housing Corporation scandal.
She said allegations in yesterday's Bermuda Sun had spar...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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There were few immediate reactions to the Boundaries Commission report on electoral reform yesterday as the majority of MPs were seeing it for the first time.
While there were some reservations about the date set (October 11) for the debate in the Ho...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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Massive disparity in the size of electoral constituencies will be a thing of the past if the changes being proposed by the Commission become law.
And hundreds of voters will have to get used to the idea of going to the same polling stations as voters...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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A judge yesterday adjourned a request to put lawyer Larry Scott's business into administration over an unpaid debt of more than $100,000.
Mr. Scott owes former United Bermuda Party (UBP) Cabinet minister John Irving Pearman $113,639 arising out of a ...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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Sacked Bermuda Housing Corporation general manager Raymonde Dill has defended the $810,940 payments made to contractor Paul Young, the man nicknamed "the man with the golden paintbrush".
He said Mr. Young was not just a painter, but he worked with a ...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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The Boundaries Commission proceedings should have been conducted in the open, said one of its members in a dissenting view.
And Shadow Legislative Affairs Minister John Barritt, who with Pamela Gordon was appointed by the United Bermuda Party to sit ...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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The 2002 Boundaries Commission presented newly redrawn electoral districts without regard to Parish boundaries, based on a 36 seat House of Assembly with constituencies as equal in size as possible - generally within five percentage points above or b...
DATE: Sep 07, 2002
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Stealing two Bermuda Cedar trees and a car earned two Hamilton Parish men three month prison terms.
Magistrate Will Francis imprisoned Sidney O'Neil Gibbons, 38, and Andre Anthony Berkeley, 44, both of Harlem Heights Road, after they admitted taking ...
DATE: Sep 06, 2002
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