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Jetgate: What must be done now

May 18, 2014 Dear Sir, We need a serious reality check before we completely lose it, if we haven’t already. The latest controversy, Jetgate has impugned the integrity of the One Bermuda Alliance leadership. Unfortunately flogging the premier and leav...
May 19, 2014
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Jetgate: Lister calls for Parliamentary investigation

The ‘Jetgate’ saga needs a Parliamentary Committee to investigate “breaches of the rules of the House”, according to Independent MP Terry Lister. In the wake of the weekend’s round of meetings by the One Bermuda Alliance, Mr Lister observed: “The len...
May 19, 2014
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Cannonier: Resignation was best way forward for Bermuda

Craig Cannonier issued the following statement after his resignation this evening: My fellow Bermudians, Many of you have been following events for the past few months around the so-called ‘Jet Gate’ affair and consequent allegations regarding my le...
May 19, 2014
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Dunkley to be sworn in as Premier this morning

Premier Craig Cannonier has quit over the political firestorm surrounding the long-running Jetgate row. His deputy, National Security Minister Michael Dunkley, has been named the news Premier, and will be sworn in this morning. Governor George Fergus...
May 19, 2014
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Dunkley: Community will get answers on ‘JetGate’

Deputy Premier Michael Dunkley said today that the community would get answers on the Jetgate controversy which has plunged the One Bermuda Alliance into crisis and led to calls for Premier Craig Cannonier to resign. Mr Dunkley was asked at a press ...
May 19, 2014
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OBA stays tight-lipped after meetings

Premier Craig Cannonier’s political future is likely to hinge on the outcome of an internal investigation expected to conclude this week. During the past two days there have been intensive top level meetings for the One Bermuda Alliance. MPs and the ...
May 19, 2014
Politics

OBA enters another round of meetings

The One Bermuda Alliance has concluded the second in a series of meetings at the party’s headquarters, believed to be a result of the “Jetgate” controversy. After several hours of discussion, Craig Cannonier, the Premier, party chairman Thad Hollis a...
May 18, 2014
Politics

Bean: OBA Cabinet must resign

Opposition Leader warns of ‘trouble around the corner’ without resignations By Gareth Finighan and Jonathan Bell The Opposition Progressive Labour Party is calling for a mass resignation of the One Bermuda Alliance Government, following fresh revelat...
May 17, 2014
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Dawn raid marks end of Regiment’s training camp

Regiment soldiers stormed a village in a predawn attack on Thursday as the climax of their two weeks of training in Canada. Two companies of around 70 soldiers each cleared the urban warfare village at Meaford training centre in Ontario, which was de...
May 17, 2014
Editorials

The politics of implausible deniability

With Washington influence peddler Nathan Landow confirming he was indeed party to a $300,000 campaign contribution to the One Bermuda Alliance in the run-up to the Island’s 2012 General Election, the long-simmering Jetgate scandal has been brought to...
May 17, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Stop wasting our time

May 13, 2014 Dear Sir, Re: JETGATE Did this trip cost the taxpayers? Apparently not, so big deal. Bermuda is in debt for more than a billion dollars. The PLP blames the world recession for this debt. According to economists the recession should have ...
May 17, 2014
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