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Efforts to return the unique BMU code to Bermudian passports are continuing, the British Government has said.
The assurance came almost six years after Britain took over the printing of passports for its Overseas Territories — which caused problems f...
DATE: Jan 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Government last night stayed tight-lipped on how essential services had been affected by the latest wave of coronavirus infections — despite repeated questions from The
Royal Gazette.
Officials were e-mailed a series of questions last week a...
DATE: Jan 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Efforts to kick-start the economy through new industries have been questioned by the Opposition.
Senator Marcus Jones, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman on economic development, said farmers and fishermen should be drafted in to help set up a vertic...
DATE: Jan 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Acting ministerial appointments were approved for 11 intervals that spanned seven weeks from the end of November, information from Government House has shown.
The temporary cover was authorised by Rena Lalgie, the Governor, for eight members of the 1...
DATE: Jan 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
With Boris Johnson’s UK premiership looking in peril, Shaun Connolly, who closely observed the “political rock star” in his pomp at Westminster, looks at how it came to this and what it could mean for Bermuda.
If Boris Johnson is toppled by the ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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The House of Assembly got guidance from the UK on how to handle a harassment complaint against former MP Rolfe Commissiong because it had no "codes or standards“ of its own, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
But the advice given and other records held by...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The way ministers handled a last minute decision to abandon plans for a full scale return to the classroom was last night attacked by the One Bermuda Alliance.
Susan Jackson, the shadow education minister, said parents and families had been suffered ...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Progressive Labour Party MPs said they wanted to see an end to petty partisan politics, a return to undisturbed learning for schoolchildren and an even economic and racial playing field.
Christopher Famous, the MP for Devonshire East said: “Any poli...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
One Bermuda Alliance MPs said they hoped that the year ahead would attract job creators as well as bring a reduction in violent crime and calm to the roads.
Jarion Richardson, the Opposition Whip and Shadow Minister of Labour and for the Cabinet Offi...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Charles Gosling has had more than his fair share of drama on the political stage as Mayor of Hamilton, despite leaving dreams of becoming a theatre director long behind him at drama school in London.
Fighting for the Corporation’s continued existence...
DATE: Jan 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly