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Two litigants battling to get a case about the recent Commission of Inquiry heard in the Supreme Court claim the judiciary is in “crisis” because of the lack of an impartial judge to preside over it. Raymond Davis and Myron Piper wrote an open letter...

An American who claims an island off Southampton may have been misappropriated from her family a century ago is calling on others with evidence of “land grabs” to join forces for a class-action lawsuit. Helen Muise said affected families should consi...

A woman who spearheaded her family’s near 50-year battle for justice over a land theft said she that hoped the struggle would be over before she died. Barbara Brown, 90, the mother of the late MP Walton Brown, who paved the way for a Commission of In...

Two major property deals carried out more than 50 years ago were fraudulent, a hearing into allegations of land grabs ruled. A report from the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses said that several men were part of a “criminal conspiracy” ...

An application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of a Commission of Inquiry into land grabs could not be heard – because the island’s civil court judges were conflicted. Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, said the failure to find an i...

A heritage trust for the families of people dispossessed of property in Tucker’s Town and St David’s could be funded by the creation a new economic empowerment zone, commissioners suggested. The scheme’s recommended aims would include the “historical...

A 500-page report by a Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses signalled “the last mile” of a decades-long race, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt highlighted that the document would be difficult for some people to read and was among...

This is the epilogue to the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses in Bermuda, which was submitted to the House of Assembly yesterday. One complainant described the process by which his ancestors had been unjustly disposs...

A total of 56 recommendations were made under six headings in a report by the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses. The panel, headed by retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller, examined alleged land losses said to have happened “through th...

An inquiry into historic land losses was yesterday branded a sham by witnesses who claimed they were gagged from giving evidence at the hearing. Now complainants have taken legal action to ask for a judicial review of the commission. Myron Piper and ...

Sir John Swan, a former premier, dismissed claims yesterday that the island’s property and development industries were once like “the Wild West” in which corruption was rampant. Sir John was speaking at yesterday’s session of the Commission of Inquir...

A dogged independent electoral candidate, singer and activist hailed as a “soldier for the common man” has died at 75. David W. Burch was honoured in 2015 by Atlantic Publishing House run by former minister Dale Butler, who called him “a strong-wille...