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A year after the Progressive Labour Party’s landslide General Election victory, it continues to measure itself against the One Bermuda Alliance, critics claimed yesterday.
Exactly 12 months since the PLP hammered the OBA at the polls, analyst Denis P...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Parliamentary Registrar’s office asked the Opposition to amend “inaccurate statements” by former Opposition leader Patricia Gordon-Pamplin yesterday over the release of voter information for political purposes.
The call came a day after the One B...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Jeanne Atherden, the Leader of the Opposition, has called on David Burt to release “an unredacted version of the deal to build a new hospital wing”.
The challenge was raised by Ms Atherden on Friday, during the inaugural Premier’s question time segme...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Ministers have kept a careful eye on the public purse strings in their first year at the helm, despite a “curious” list of government priorities, a political observer claimed last night.
Denis Pitcher said he believed spending has been curbed in comp...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
David Burt will give an overview of his first year in office in a national address tomorrow.
The Premier’s address, at 6.40pm, will be carried by CITV, One Communications channel 2 and Wow channel 102 as well as the website www.gov.bm/whats-on-citv a...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Roadside breath tests were backed by the Senate today.
Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the Upper House that the legislation covered the setting up of checkpoints, as well as obtaining breath testing equipment and the formalising of pre...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Training methods have been improved at the Royal Bermuda Regiment, national security minister Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly on Friday.
Mr Caines said the second recruit intake of 2018 has taken the total soldiers recruited this year to 65, ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Premier confirmed the Bermuda Government’s purchase of the Park Place building, understood to be the IAS Park building on Hamilton’s Church Street, as a fintech space.
David Burt told Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin that the building had be...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The One Bermuda Alliance alleged this afternoon that voters’ contact details, filed with the office of the Parliamentary Registrar, had been shared with the Progressive Labour Party for election campaigns dating back to 2012.
The statement was issued...
DATE: Jul 17, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Land owners will be able to register their property without going through a lawyer after a change in legislation was passed in the House of Assembly.
The Land Title Registration Amendment Act 2018 will allow members of the public to carry out volunta...
DATE: Jul 16, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter