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The OBA this afternoon claimed a PLP pledge to create thousands of jobs was not backed by any plan.
Shadow Finance Minister (ET) Bob Richards issued a statement saying the PLP needed to “challenged on the gap between their rhetoric and reality”.
The ...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Premier Paula Cox this afternoon urged voters “not to turn the clock back” at vote PLP on Monday.
Ms Cox released a statement saying “this is the most important election since that historic day in November 1998”.
The statement said:
When you go to th...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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A vote for an independent is a vote for “real and meaningful change,” according a statement from the group of independent candidates.
David Petty, candidate for Pembroke South West, said in a statement on behalf of the group of 15 independent general...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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The One Bermuda Alliance holds a 13 percent lead over the PLP, according to a poll conducted for The Royal Gazette.
And the poll also shows that there could be a big turnout on Monday with 90 percent of registered voters saying they will cast a vote....
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Half of registered voters disapprove of the governing party’s performance since the last election, according to the latest survey by research firm MindMaps.
And just 21 percent said they approve of the performance of the Progressive Labour Party. But...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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The price tag for building a hotel room, or a ‘key’, in Bermuda is $1 million — and that compares to $400,000 in other destination countries.
Those people who attended a town hall meeting at Francis Patton Primary School, spotlighting the four Hamil...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
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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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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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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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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