WORKPLACE EQUITY
Governments proposed Workplace Equity Act 2007, which would give Commission for Unity and Racial Equality (CURE) powers to fine companies up to $50,000 if they block the progress of black Bermudians, met with heavy emotion on all sid...
"When one party expresses sharp rhetoric, it's been responded to in like. This behaviour from both sides has now, in my view, whipped up those irresponsible elements amongh the ranks who are capable of that sort of behaviour on both sides'.
– Former ...
TEACHERS PAY DISPUTE
A pay dispute caused teachers at a majority of the Island's public schools to "work to rule". Bermuda Union of Teachers general secretary Mike Charles alleged the dispute was about the Government "reneging" on a payment package d...
"2007 must be a year when overheating in construction is curbed and these major hotel projects put on a phased basis."
– Sen. E.T. Bob Richards wrote in an opinion piece about the dangers of economic over heating.
"Everybody's astonished but it doesn...
One year ago, this newspaper noted here that 2006 had been a remarkable year.
In its own way, 2007 has been too, with a general election, a recent surge of crime, Bermuda's first ever participation in the World Cup and the passings of some remarkable...
December 6: Government unveiled its new drugs master plan that gave equal weight to reducing demand and supply. Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler said the five-year plan, which had been two years in the making, would bring together all the a...
September 6: A $20 million refurbishment to iconic Fairmont Hamilton Princess, bought by Goodman Investment Group, was underway. The Goodman Investment Group bought the hotel for an undisclosed amount, though it will still be run by the Fairmont mana...
NIOBE CORINTHIAN SAGA
The controversial Niobe Corinthian casino ship was to set sail from Bermuda for the first time on September 29, according to lawyer Llewellyn Peniston. Mr. Peniston, who acted for the owners of the vessel, said legal loopholes w...
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330) In the matter of Order 113 of the Rules of the Supreme Court Acrt 1905. In the matter of an Application for Summary Possession of 10 Roberts Ave Devonshire Parish HM 16. Betwe...
DAME LOIS– BROWNE EVANS
The leader of the Progressive Labour Party for much of the 1970s and 1980s and Bermuda's first female Attorney General, died early of a suspected stroke. She was 79.
Dame Lois was Bermuda's first female barrister, Bermuda's an...
