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With less than a week before a new PLP leader and Premier is elected, The Royal Gazette spoke to some PLP MPs about their thoughts on Premier Ewart Brown.
Walter Lister called the Premier outspoken, but co-operative. "I always found him very...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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Speaking four years ago, Dr. Brown said he wanted to spend time and energy making more citizens comfortable with Independence and move Bermuda towards its true glory as a prosperous independent nation.Royal Gazette poll in November 2006, by Resea...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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A leading businessman gives the Premier "nought out of ten" for his record on finance.
"In almost every aspect of financial planning and management the administration that he headed failed to achieve an average score and in the majority the rati...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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Tim Smith asked five political observers how they think Ewart Brown will be remembered in years to come.
A hero, a villain, a latter day Sir John Swan, the Uighur man, an antagonist or more or less forgotten in a couple of decades' time — true t...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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Minister of Tourism Ewart Brown worked hard to bring "pop and sizzle" to an industry that has been on the decline for decades.
From the Bermuda Music Festival, to the TNT partnership for the PGA Grand Slam, to the pink taxis in London, Dr. Brown...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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The physician did most of what he promised on health, according to insiders in the field.
Dr. Brown kept his pledge to open discussions on how the new hospital should be built and, with the creation of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre in St. David's...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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For 12 years Premier Ewart Brown has presided over the Ministry of Transport.
Since taking on the Ministry of Tourism and then the Premiership, his first portfolio appears to have taken a back seat when it comes to the limelight; despite this, his li...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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Dr. Brown's rhetoric has finally got white people to pay attention to blacks, according to race activist Eva Hodgson.
But Dr. Hodgson questioned whether blacks are actually any better off than before, because Government has failed to pass any le...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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He swept into office vowing to build affordable rental housing on a faster track, but views are mixed on how far Dr. Brown has achieved what he set out to.
Progressive Labour Party elder statesman Reginald Burrows says there's probably been more hous...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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Dr. Brown has described education as the biggest disappointment of his four-year tenure — and Bermuda Union of Teachers general secretary Mike Charles isn't too impressed either.
Mr. Charles says much of the blame for the continuing failure of the Is...
DATE: Oct 22, 2010
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