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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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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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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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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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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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Politics
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Bermuda’s political party leaders agree on one thing — the unprecedented number of independent candidates seeking elective office signals a healthy democracy but voters ought to choose one party or another to run the country.
The two party leaders we...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Politics
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Premier Paula Cox will lead a panel discussion tomorrow featuring a panel of women running in the general election on the theme “Embracing Bermuda’s Women”.
Panelists include candidates Renee Ming, Lovitta Foggo, Patrice Minors, Dawn Simmons and Sen ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Transport Minister Walter Roban has vowed that bus and ferry services will be enhanced if the Progressive Labour Party is voted back into Government.
But Mr Roban could not give a commitment that fares would not be raised.
“I cannot commit to that a...
DATE: Dec 11, 2012
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Politics
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Asked to assess how the crime situation has changed since the last election, Minister of National Security Wayne Perinchief was characteristically blunt.
“It’s the escalation of gang violence and use of guns, which became topical in 2009. In 2010 whe...
DATE: Dec 11, 2012
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Politics
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