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Opposition Senator Diallo Rabain has retracted a claim made in the Upper House that a top executive for developers Desarrollos Hotelco Group had been imprisoned for fraud.
The Venezuelan company is currently in negotiations with Government to develop...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The public is struggling to understand the recent turn taken by politics in Bermuda, according to Opposition Senator Diallo Rabain — who was barred from discussing alleged remarks made by One Bermuda Alliance Senator Lynne Woolridge.
Senator Rabain t...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A work permit policy that Government said would create jobs — and that the Opposition has criticised as hurting Bermudian workers — has been delayed, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy.
Speaking during the Senate’s motion to adjourn, the...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
New Sandys South MP Jamahl Simmons is continuing to canvass Constituency 33, one week after winning the by-election there for the Progressive Labour Party.
Mr Simmons said the first item on his agenda was to speak with all the residents that were mis...
DATE: Nov 25, 2014
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Politics
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New Progressive Labour Party MP Jamahl Simmons was sworn in this morning as the Opposition representative for Sandys South.
The Constituency 33 MP, approved in Tuesday’s by-election, took the oath of allegiance after being led on to the floor of the ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Jamahl Simmons has been elected as the Member of Parliament for Sandys South tonight.
The Progressive Labour Party’s candidate for Constituency 33 beat Georgia Marshall, who was standing for the One Bermuda Alliance, by 462 votes to 326.
There was a ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Shadow Minister of Immigration and External Affairs Walton Brown said he wondered whether he had “dozed off” during the Government’s Throne Speech announcement in relation to immigrations measures to protect Bermudians, as there was so little attenti...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Social recovery is essential for economic recovery to begin according to Wayne Scott, Minister of Community, Culture and Sports.
Speaking in the House of Assembly, Mr Scott spoke of the Children’s Amendment Act to be debated in Parliament next week w...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Sandys South voters will pick their new Member of Parliament at the polls tomorrow.
Several residents of Constituency 33 told The Royal Gazette they would have preferred to have kept Independent MP Terry Lister, who decisively won the seat in 2012 fo...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Football matches have been suspended this weekend after the shootings that left four people injured.
All games, from Premier Division to under-16, have been postponed by the Bermuda Football Association and a Special Congress Meeting on the situation...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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Politics
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