Senior civil servant Major Marc Telemaque asked immigration officials to find a way for Bermuda to issue travel documents to the four refugee Uighurs, but was rebuffed.
Major Telemaque sent a “high importance” e-mail in January 2011, the day before h...
A child safety campaigner has called for urgent investment in more courtroom space so young victims of sex crimes do not have to wait years for their cases to be heard.
Debi Ray-Rivers, the founder an executive director of charity Saving Children and...
A dossier of official correspondence about the Uighurs and their relatives has been released by the Government, ten years after the four men came to the island from Guantánamo Bay at the invitation of Ewart Brown.
The e-mails reveal how Bermuda’s top...
As concern about plastic pollution grows around the world, a Bermudian clothing company is playing its part to help the environment.
Coral Coast Clothing has introduced a line of recycled plastic swimming trunks, just in time for the height of summer...
Last Friday, the Minister of Education, Diallo Rabain, made a monumental statement in Parliament.
“Mr Speaker, it gives me great pleasure today to rise and give notice of the renewal of the relationship between the Bermudian people and The University...
DATE: Jun 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous
In times of an impending hurricane we tend to rush to the grocery store, gas station and hardware outlets to panic buy. Anything we can remotely think about — from candles to duct tape to generators. The world seems to be coming to an end over the ne...
DATE: Jun 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Bill Storie
Three “brave abused” children and a handful of charities successfully fought for a legal change that will protect youngsters by ensuring they have independent representation in court, the groups involved in a Court of Appeal case said yesterday.
A jo...
The Human Rights Commission withdrew from a legal bid to ensure children’s rights to be represented in court were upheld, without explaining why.
The commission, an independent statutory body charged with promoting and protecting human rights in Berm...
DATE: Jun 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Government has shown a “flagrant disregard” for children by failing to pay for them to have independent legal representation, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
Court of Appeal judge Dame Elizabeth Gloster said in a written judgment that there ...
Somers Day was observed for nearly two decades before Parliament created the two-day Cup Match holiday in 1947.
The first known public commemoration of Sir George Somers’s 1609 landing of the Sea Venture occurred in 1929.
On July 28, 1931, Somers Day...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Meredith Ebbin
