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Drivers are being asked to take extra caution on roads that are “in a state” and “inadequate” because of extensive trenching work.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, made the plea in a statement in the House of Assembly ye...
DATE: Nov 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
MPs will return to the House of Assembly this morning, where they can expect to hear 12 ministerial statements and the One Bermuda Alliance reply to the Throne Speech.
An order paper showed five members were expected to be absent from proceedings – P...
DATE: Nov 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Ernest Peets, the former minister, has departed the Senate as David Burt named a new Progressive Labour Party member of the Upper Chamber.
The Premier announced that Leslie Robinson replaced Dr Peets at a swearing-in ceremony at Government House yest...
DATE: Nov 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Constitutional reform will feature strongly in the House of Assembly as a study on how self-government would work is discussed by MPs.
The document, commissioned by the Government, was revealed in the Throne Speech, but scant detail of its conte...
DATE: Nov 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Jamahl Simmons, a prominent Progressive Labour Party MP, has strongly defended his mother after she criticised the education minister over sweeping changes to primary schools.
The former Cabinet member said he would always put his family ahead of an...
DATE: Nov 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Landlords have been called upon to help boost the island’s dwindling reserves of affordable housing by partnering with the Government’s housing quango.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said it was “neither reasonable nor ...
DATE: Nov 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A human-rights activist doubts that pressure from the UK to amend Bermuda’s same-sex marriage laws will have any effect.
Linda Bogle-Mienzer, added that she thought it unlikely that Whitehall will force the island’s hand on the issue.
Same-sex marria...
DATE: Nov 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Emergency Cabinet meetings have been held to address violence at CedarBridge Academy, David Burt revealed at a town hall meeting last night.
The Premier was responding to comments from a father of a CedarBridge student who said his daughter was atta...
DATE: Nov 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The new Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, Owen Darrell, and the Minister of Public Works, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch will hold a press conference at 2.30pm today on the Throne Speech.
We will have live coverage and in-depth reports.
DATE: Nov 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Members of other UK overseas territories have the “full confidence” of the Minister of Home Affairs that they will make representations on the island’s behalf at COP27 – the UN’s climate conference being held in Egypt.
Walter Roban said that he “happ...
DATE: Nov 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter