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The Registrar-General cannot post marriage banns for gay couples because such unions are null and void under Bermuda’s existing laws, a court heard yesterday. Deputy Solicitor-General Shakira Dill-Francois, representing the Bermuda Government in a ci...

The lawyer for a gay couple fighting for the right to marry in Bermuda has urged the court to write the final chapter in the protection of gay rights. Mark Pettingill, acting on behalf of Bermudian Winston Godwin and his Canadian fiancé, Greg DeRoche...

New Governor John Rankin yesterday backed same-sex civil unions in Bermuda. “Civil unions have been recognised in the UK and in many other jurisdictions around the world,” he said. “I hope that any differing views on this issue in Bermuda can be reso...

Former Attorney-General Mark Pettingill said yesterday that a newspaper advertisement taken out by a group opposing same-sex marriage was “totally inappropriate” in light of ongoing legal proceedings. Preserve Marriage paid to place the half-page adv...

Police are to begin recording instances of hate crimes perpetrated against members of the island’s LGBT community, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Bermuda Police Service’s quarterly and annual crime statistics do not include information about crime...

Government lawyers will argue in court that the Registrar-General was right to refuse to marry a gay couple because marriage is not a “service” as defined in the Human Rights Act. Acting Solicitor-General Norman MacDonald told a Supreme Court hearing...

A gay Bermudian and his fiancé have been granted leave to argue in the Supreme Court that they should be allowed to wed on the island. Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche, who live in Toronto, had their application to marry rejected by the Registrar-Gene...

Yesha Townsend never intended to be a poet. Rapper was her vocation of choice. But children have a way of changing everything. The 29-year-old blames Gavin Smith for the intervention. Five years ago she was in Minnesota, working towards her bachelor...

The Centre for Justice said today it was relieved that an amendment to the Human Rights Act to allow discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in relation to marriage was rejected by the Senate. In a statement, the civil liberties and human...

It is likely to be a year before the Human Rights Amendment Act, turned down by the Senate, can be brought back to Parliament by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert said he had sought three legal opinions after Thursday’s narrow 6-5 defeat in the...

A bid by a Bermudian and his fiancé to become the first gay couple to wed on the island could go before the Supreme Court next week. Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche, who live in Toronto, had their application to marry rejected by the Registrar-Genera...

The Senate yesterday rejected amendments to the Human Rights Act aimed at solidifying marriage as being between a man and a woman. Senator Michael Fahy, Senator Georgia Marshall, Senator Jeff Baron and Senator Lynne Woolridge of the One Bermuda Allia...