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National security minister Jeff Baron said yesterday that Bermuda’s recidivism rate was falling and at an “all-time low”, describing it as a measure of the success of prison rehabilitation programmes.
The government senator told the Upper Chamber tha...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Senator Jeff Baron has accused new Opposition leader David Burt of giving election “platitudes” which the public won’t buy in his Reply to the Throne Speech.
The national security minister questioned how Mr Burt could say people of any sexual orienta...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Finance minister Bob Richards has shared details of the “complete, public description” of the airport development transaction.
Mr Richards presented the 19-page document to MPs in the House of Assembly on Monday before the Ministry of Finance shared ...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Jonathan Bell
Minibuses may get called in to serve neighbourhoods that public buses cannot reach, as the Government looks at regulating the industry.
“We have to start that process of conversation,” transport minister Senator Michael Fahy told a pres...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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Politics
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Progressive Labour Party MP Walton Brown will be holding a clinic in Constituency 17 on Saturday.
Mr Brown, the Shadow Minister of Home Affairs, welcomes all residents to share their concerns and ask questions on local and national issues, according ...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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Politics
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One Bermuda Alliance MP Mark Pettingill has criticised the Progressive Labour Party’s approach to decriminalising cannabis possession in small quantities as “ill-founded and wrong”.
After new Opposition leader David Burt delivered his party’s Throne ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2016
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Politics
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Voters in Warwick South Central, Constituency 26, will return to the polls on December 20 to choose a replacement for Marc Bean, the former Leader of the Opposition who retired from politics this month.
The Parliamentary Registrar informed this morni...
DATE: Nov 15, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
David Burt, the new Leader of the Progressive Labour Party, delivered a forceful Reply to the Throne Speech yesterday, charging the One Bermuda Alliance with failing in its 2012 electoral pledges, while vowing tighter governance and oversight to a re...
DATE: Nov 15, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Upper House convenes tomorrow — but a new Opposition Leader in the Senate has yet to be announced, the Progressive Labour Party said this afternoon.
A Senate vacancy was left in the PLP ranks after Marc Daniels, the former leader, declared on Nov...
DATE: Nov 15, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Michael Dunkley has accused a union leader of “irresponsible” comments about this year’s Throne Speech.
The Premier said during a live online question- and-answer session with readers of The Royal Gazette that he did not think Mike Charles, general s...
DATE: Nov 14, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways