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The United Nations General Assembly has expressed its regret over Bermuda's lack of public meetings and Parliamentary debates on independence.
The Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for discussion on the issue, noting the Island's political pa...
DATE: Jan 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Political activist Khalid Wasi yesterday called for all Opposition MPs to quit their own parties and join the Progressive Labour Party.
Mr Wasi said that would allow Bermuda to “start a new game” after the PLP effectively sealed checkmate by ensuring...
DATE: Jan 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Government appears to have missed its self-imposed deadline to complete the police/court building, Shadow Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin claimed yesterday.
Earlier this month, Works Minister Derrick Burgess said all construction aspects of th...
DATE: Dec 31, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The coming year could be the year a succession of faces synonymous with the Progressive Labour Party's rise to power finally move out of the spotlight.
Thirteen years after the PLP's famous first election victory, 12 of that victorious team still hol...
DATE: Dec 30, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The Voter’s Rights Association has expressed concerns that plans could be moving forward to turn White’s Island into a juvenile corrections facility.
A spokesman for the Department of Corrections was contacted yesterday, but has not commented as of p...
DATE: Dec 30, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
As the Progressive Labour Party enters 2011 in a position of dominance, emerging key members Michael-Jay Landy, Kim Lightbourne and Curtis Williams told Tim Smith they won’t rest on their laurels, in the final part of our end-of-year series looking a...
DATE: Dec 30, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A by-election hammering by the Progressive Labour Party, rumours of more high-profile defections and infighting over the demotion of its former leader once again the headlines have not been kind to the United Bermuda Party in 2010.
One possible outco...
DATE: Dec 29, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
In the second of our three-part series looking at Bermuda’s political parties as 2010 comes to an end, the United Bermuda Party’s new recruit Montell Currin explains to Tim Smith why he was nervous telling his grandmother he was signing up with the o...
DATE: Dec 29, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Up against two of the Island’s most popular local MPs, Michael Branco and Dueane Dill have tough tasks persuading residents to vote against Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Opposition leader Kim Swan.
But Southampton East Central and St George’s West...
DATE: Dec 28, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
National Security Minister David Burch reassured wealthy foreigners they are welcome in Bermuda despite a crackdown on expatriates who acquire property illegally.
Last week Government took possession of a Southampton home, ‘Laughing Waters', having d...
DATE: Dec 28, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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