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Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell last night gave assurances that gaming, and Government’s promise to put the matter to a National Referendum, are matters that Government intends to deal with promptly.
Asked when voters would be presented with the iss...
DATE: Aug 10, 2013
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The deadline for submissions to the SAGE Commission Awards Programme has been extended by one week from July 31 to Wednesday, August 7.
To date, 284 submissions have been sent in through the commission’s website at www.sagecommission.bm.
Commission C...
DATE: Jul 31, 2013
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Highly critical of OBA plans to make legislation applicable only to Government MPs
By Ayo Johnson
Independent MP Terry Lister has lambasted Government for its announcement in the House of Assembly of a drug testing policy for Government MPs only.
Mr...
DATE: Jul 31, 2013
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Environment Minister Sylvan Richards has declined to respond to criticism over his controversial “blackety black” remarks in the House of Assembly on Friday.
But Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy yesterday reiterated his defence of his colleague say...
DATE: Jul 31, 2013
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Chamber president critical of PLP’s Walter Roban’s ‘intellectually bankrupt’ gibe
By Ayo Johnson
The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce is standing by its view that job creators should be given status.
Opposition MP Walter Roban’s characterised those who p...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Environment Minister Sylvan Richards trivialised the struggle for civil rights in House of Assembly remarks on Friday, according to Opposition Senator Diallo Rabain.
Mr Richards had sought to highlight what he said had been the Progressive Labour Par...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Politics
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Premier Craig Cannonier plans to reduce the size of Cabinet in accordance with recommendations from the UK’s National School of Government.
But the Premier is not saying what those recommendations — made in 2011 to the former Progressive Labour Party...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Government has tabled a new law fighting transnational organised crime.
The Transnational Organised Crime Bill 2013 makes it an offence to participate in a criminal organisation, smuggle or traffick in persons and forge or falsify travel documents.
I...
DATE: Jul 29, 2013
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Government is hoping to make money laundering and terrorist financing more difficult with a slew of measures tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday.
The Proceeds of Crime and Related Measures Amendment Act 2013 proposes to amend five laws and regu...
DATE: Jul 29, 2013
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Politics
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Police have seized nine guns linked to a slew of firearms offences this year.
And that statistic shows that a gun bounty initiative introduced in May has “delivered results”, according to Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley.
In a statement deliver...
DATE: Jul 27, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
