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Progressive Labour Party insiders expect more twists and turns over candidate selection even after branch elections have concluded at the end of next week.
Hard-fought battles are taking place in at least 14 candidate selection meetings across the Co...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Progressive Labour Party MP Dennis Lister last night saw off a challenge for his Sandys North Central seat, claiming there was “never a chance” he could have lost it. Mr Lister comfortably won against the party’s executive officer Joella Dawn Simmons...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Nearly 90 percent of Devonshire South Central residents polled by former MP John Barritt supported a merger between the United Bermuda Party and Bermuda Democratic Alliance.
Mr Barritt said his survey of 100 registered Constituency 12 voters helped h...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The boss responsible for building the Heritage Wharf cruise ship pier says people should be congratulating him as Bermuda’s “most exposed building” still looks like it did when it was built.
Dennis Correia has hit back at “the naysayers” saying they...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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Politics
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The One Bermuda Alliance is ahead of the Progressive Labour Party in the latest poll after gaining a surge of voters in its first few months of existence.
Thirty-eight percent of people said they would vote OBA in a general election, with 32 percent ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A Special Investigations team is being set up at the Auditor General’s office to speed up reports into public projects, including those carried out under former Premier Ewart Brown.
Auditor General Heather Matthews also hopes she will get more power ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Overseas Territories Minister Henry Bellingham began his visit to the Island with a tour by sea of Bermuda’s maritime policing and port security, just hours after his arrival.
Aside from learning how marine police work with the Bermuda Regiment, the ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Minister Neletha Butterfield and Senator David Burt are set to go head-to-head in a rematch after Thursday night’s controversial candidates selection meeting in Pembroke West Central, according to sources.
The pair’s contest at West Pembroke Primary ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The United Bermuda Party has relaunched its website after about three months but you can’t find out much without a password.
The political party’s new-look website appeared online yesterday morning suggesting the UBP is gearing up for the next genera...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Overseas Territories Minister Henry Bellingham is to visit Bermuda ahead of Britain publishing its White Paper.
The Conservative MP will make his first visit to the Island next week in what he calls “a very important time for Bermuda, and overseas te...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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