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Dear Sir As a little boy, growing up and going into the City of Hamilton with my parents, way back in the 1950s, seemed like going to another country. Despite all the things my grandmother used to tell me about how the old oligarchs or the “Forty Th...

Dear Sir, I attended the meeting called by the Government last Thursday evening (March 7, 2019) to discuss the taking-over of the Corporation of Hamilton. The meeting was well attended. The panel approached the present mayor on two issues, but did n...

It was something that Charles Gosling said that gets us to thinking that there may be something more afoot in this quango kerfuffle than the Bermuda Government merely wishing to modernise the governance of the corporations of Hamilton and St George. ...

Owain Johnston-Barnes, Sarah Lagan The Senate rejected last night an Act designed to axe the corporations of Hamilton and St George and turn them into unelected quangos. It was the first vote defeat for the Progressive Labour Party since it won power...

The Corporation of Hamilton asked for a legal order yesterday to stop the Governor approving legislation designed to turn the city authority into an unelected quango. Mark Diel, the lawyer for the Corporation of Hamilton, said the unusual step was ne...

The City of Hamilton’s mayor last night signalled a legal battle will be launched to fight a government plan to turn the city into a quango. Charles Gosling revealed that preparations were being made for a writ and he would “talk tactics” with lawyer...

It has been very clear, from the statement made in the Throne Speech last year, that the intentions of this government regarding the municipalities are evident. It is so simple. Taking away the right to determine the representatives on the city coun...

Controversial legislation to turn Bermuda’s two municipalities into unelected quangos was passed by MPs this morning. The decision will bring to an end a combined total of almost 450 years of local government in Hamilton and St George’s. MPs voted 2...

Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, promised Hamilton’s change from a municipality to a quango would helped aid the redevelopment of the city’s waterfront. Questioned by city residents at a public meeting last night, the minister maintained t...

The Corporation of Hamilton has urged the public to turn out tonight for a Government hosted meeting on municipal reform. Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, said the change “essentially strips the ratepayer in the City of their voting right, inc...

St George’s residents were told a Government announcement about the introduction of a new bus schedule could come this week. During the meeting, held on Tuesday night to discuss Government’s plan to change the municipalities into quangos, several mem...

St George’s residents labelled a plan to turn the Olde Towne into a quango as an attack on democracy at a public meeting last night. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, told attendees the change would mean a higher priority from the Governmen...