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Police have launched an inquiry after an allegation of theft from the offices of the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses. The Royal Gazette understands that intruders are suspected of rifling through documents and files stored at the comm...

A Bermudian historian said the compulsory purchase of land in Tucker’s Town could be branded a land grab despite the creation of laws to allow it. Theodore Francis told the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses yesterday that the island’s p...

The Miami-based owners of a luxury resort are expected to develop a “remediation plan” for a cemetery that sits in its golf course, a lawyer revealed yesterday. Mark Pettingill, who represented Gencom at the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Losses...

A church pastor said yesterday that golf course operators “failed” to stop the “desecration” of graves where Bermudian ancestors were buried. The Reverend Joseph Whalen told the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Losses of Land in Bermuda that the r...

A new senior counsel was welcomed to the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Losses of Land in Bermuda yesterday. Dirk Harrison was appointed to the role after the resignation of Ivan Whitehall QC, last month. Norma Wade-Miller, the Commission chairw...

An inquiry into historic land losses will restart next Wednesday, the Commission of Inquiry announced today. The commission is expected to hear the last pieces of evidence on the compulsory purchase of land at Tucker’s Town and St David’s Island bef...

A descendant of Tucker’s Town residents said yesterday that he felt “not important” when a cemetery was “desecrated” in 2012. Eugene Stovell told the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Loss in Bermuda that he was “extremely angry” at the way a ...

A top lawyer from Canada has resigned his position as counsel for the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses in Bermuda, it was revealed today. Officials for the hearings said that Ivan Whitehall QC stepped down for “personal reasons”. The s...

The 1920 land grab that took place in Tucker’s Town could not happen today, a historian testified yesterday. Duncan McDowall, a Canadian, said the process used to displace residents from their land “would never meet muster in our society, yours or mi...

An “international matrix of white power” was behind the company that developed land in Tucker’s Town for tourism purposes, a Bermudian historian said yesterday (MON). Theodore Francis said the Bermuda Development Company was formed in 1920 by represe...

The homes of people in St David’s were razed to protect the tourism industry, a Commission of Inquiry was told yesterday. Jean Foggo Simon, a researcher at the St David’s Island Historical Society, said many poor, black Bermudian families lost their ...

Retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller will head an investigation into alleged land grabs. David Burt, the Premier, announced the members of the Commission of Inquiry at the House of Assembly yesterday. A motion to set up an inquiry was tabled by lat...