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Veteran United Bermuda Party candidate John Barritt was returned to the House of Assembly for the fourth time after the count was completed in Constituency 12, Devonshire South Central.
Mr. Barritt was returned with a comfortable majority of 601, hav...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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The music playing as the victory party kicked off on Court Street said it all.
"Ain't no stopping us now," chanted the crowd, as they celebrated the PLP's historic third election win.
The party's only white MP, Zane DeSilva, received one of the loude...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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Government romped home with a third more seats than the Opposition last night, but only five percent more of the popular vote.
In the first-past-the-post system the UBP may have gained 47.25 percent of the electorate's support — compared to 52.35 for...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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A shattered Michael Dunkley last night vowed to rise today and "go back to work" to help Bermudians try to bridge the gaps created during seven weeks of the most volatile election campaign the Island has seen.
"Nasty must work," the defeated former U...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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It was like a scene from a film when Michael Douglas turned out to vote in Warwick North Central. He simply walked past the two policemen who didn't even say good day to him. No other voters were coming in at that time.
The two people at the PLP tent...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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Progressive Labour Party incumbent Derrick Burgess was returned to the House of Assembly for the fourth time last night in a landslide victory in Hamilton East.
Mr. Burgess said that he felt very good about the election. He added that the PLP had ser...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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First time United Bermuda Party candidate Donte Hunt provided one of the few bright spots of the night for the Opposition when he beat out Attorney General Phillip Perinchief in St. George's South 544 to 519 votes.
In the last election Renee Webb bea...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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Election 2007 is now in the history books and most of us will be at least pleased that this campaign is behind us and that we can look towards the holidays.
1998 was for all intents and purposes a two-term victory for the PLP.
Yesterday was the first...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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Thank goodness it's over. An unedifying election campaign is finally done. Scurrilous e-mails, YouTube videos, empty promises, threats and wild assertions, character assassination, epic doses of utter nonsense – and then, allegedly, a bullet in the p...
DATE: Dec 19, 2007
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Two women have been charged with stealing more than a $140,000 from Bermuda Telephone Company.
Jacqueline Laidlow, 66, of Swansville Drive, Warwick, and Yvonne Simmons, 43, of Upland Street, Devonshire, were not required to enter a plea at Magistrate...
DATE: Dec 18, 2007
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