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Reports that the UK Government asked the Bermuda Government to allow election observers here for next week’s poll are inaccurate, Cabinet Office said yesterday.
But the UK has clearly been hoping that Bermuda take up the idea — even if it has made no...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Politics
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Is it a movement that’s here to stay — or an aberration? Independent general election candidates are convinced that their time has come and Bermuda is witnessing the beginning of the end of politics as we know it.
The reason for this, they say, is th...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Politics
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After a busy opening, day two of advance polling saw a calmer atmosphere at the station held in King Street’s Seventh-Day Adventist Hall.
But as of 5pm yesterday, Parliamentary Registrar General Randy Scott reported that 1,423 advanced certificates h...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A debate between the leaders of the two political parties has been called off.
According to One Bermuda Alliance chairman Thad Hollis, the two parties agreed that a debate after yesterdays’ advance polling would “disadvantage and disrespect those who...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Politics
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The first votes of the general election were cast yesterday as advanced polling began.
Hundreds of voters attended the Seventh-day Adventist Church Hall, on King Street, where they were greeted by a raft of political candidates.
Those who spoke with ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance yesterday completed the release of its platform proposals. The electronic document — “More OBA Solutions” includes promises to “help seniors, strengthen public health, support young Bermudians, protect the environm...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Politics
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The One Bermuda Alliance is maintaining a stony silence over its relationship with Marius Penczner.
Smith’s North incumbent Patrice Minors asked her challenger Michael Dunkley to state whether the man who wrote the controversial post-2007 election an...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Politics
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The governing party has been urged by the Opposition to fulfil its promise on open budgeting.
Sylvan Richards, One Bermuda Alliance candidate for constituency seven, said in a statement on Monday that Premier Paula Cox’s promise of an open budget pro...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Politics
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The Premier stepped up the anti-OBA rhetoric in her speech at the Progressive Labour Party rally at the TN Tatem Middle School last night.
The One Bermuda Alliance is a political party that has gone behind people’s backs to deceive them and to get po...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Independent candidate Jonathan Starling promises to be an advocate for social, environmental and economic justice if elected to Parliament.
His 17-page platform, which can be accessed at www.votestarling.com, includes far-reaching proposals for new p...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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