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Mystery surrounds an advertisement announcing the dissolving of the United Bermuda Party as its two remaining MPs are understood not to know anything about it.
UBP leader Kim Swan and MP Charlie Swan are believed to have been left in the dark about t...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Pharmacists and doctors have raised fears that dangerous counterfeit drugs could make their way into Bermuda under new rules coming into effect tomorrow.
An order made by Health Minister Zane DeSilva in a bid to drive down healthcare costs will allow...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The One Bermuda Alliance will struggle to get votes from blacks even though the Progressive Labour Party is governing badly, unless it begins addressing racism in the white community, according to activist Eva Hodgson.
Dr Hodgson warned the new Oppos...
DATE: Jun 28, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A delegation of Bermudian politicians are in Grenada as part of the Regional Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference.
The 36th annual conference began on Saturday and ends Thursday.
Minister of Government Estates and Information Services Ne...
DATE: Jun 28, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government Senator LaVerne Furbert says it’s “just amazing” the Opposition party claims to know about the concerns of workers.
Ms Furbert told the Senate she had to question the articles in The Royal Gazette about the One Bermuda Alliance and the Ber...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Politics
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Bermuda’s “soaring debt” has accumulated thanks to “pork barrel politics”, according to Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards.
He told the House of Assembly on Friday the Island had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public debt because of huge ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
One Bermuda Alliance chairman Michael Fahy pledged yesterday to keep putting pressure on Bermuda Industrial Union to produce more than a decade’s worth of missing financial statements.
Mr Fahy claimed the union had broken the law by not allowing its ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Premier Sir David Gibbons has told a Caribbean news magazine that Bermuda’s Government is “simply not competent” and that the Island’s reinsurance industry is “very healthy”.
In an interview published on Friday in Caribbean Journal, the former...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Opposition Senate leader Michael Dunkley is the public’s choice to lead the One Bermuda Alliance and the most popular out of 16 politicians polled in a new survey.
Twenty-two percent of voters said Senator Dunkley would be the best OBA leader, with a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The Island’s legacy of slavery still exists today and we must engage more openly in dialogue to promote healing, according to anti-racism campaigner Mark Nash.
Speaking with UK based broadcast station Colorful Radio this week, Mr Nash said many peop...
DATE: Jun 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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