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A heritage trust for the families of people dispossessed of property in Tucker’s Town and St David’s could be funded by the creation a new economic empowerment zone, commissioners suggested. The scheme’s recommended aims would include the “historical...

A 500-page report by a Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses signalled “the last mile” of a decades-long race, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt highlighted that the document would be difficult for some people to read and was among...

This is the epilogue to the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses in Bermuda, which was submitted to the House of Assembly yesterday. One complainant described the process by which his ancestors had been unjustly disposs...

A total of 56 recommendations were made under six headings in a report by the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses. The panel, headed by retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller, examined alleged land losses said to have happened “through th...

An inquiry into historic land losses was yesterday branded a sham by witnesses who claimed they were gagged from giving evidence at the hearing. Now complainants have taken legal action to ask for a judicial review of the commission. Myron Piper and ...

Sir John Swan, a former premier, dismissed claims yesterday that the island’s property and development industries were once like “the Wild West” in which corruption was rampant. Sir John was speaking at yesterday’s session of the Commission of Inquir...

A dogged independent electoral candidate, singer and activist hailed as a “soldier for the common man” has died at 75. David W. Burch was honoured in 2015 by Atlantic Publishing House run by former minister Dale Butler, who called him “a strong-wille...

SOS! There is an urgent need to have put forward a few direct questions that have real-time significance and are of national importance. What must one do in Bermuda to attain justice or even relief, if everyone from the very head of our judicial fram...

Sir John Swan said he legally purchased a plot of land in Sandys that was the subject of a complaint before the Commission of Inquiry. The family of the late John Augustus Alexander Virgil claimed he lost four acres of land in the Spring Benny area ...

The Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses in Bermuda is a noble pursuit, certainly a needed inquiry longed for by many, given the history of irregular property acquisitions in the mid-20th century. One would recall when this motion was firs...

The Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses in Bermuda has adjourned indefinitely following the death of Commission counsel Dirk Harrison’s father. His father Paul Harrison, a former Court of appeal president in Jamaica, died on Sunday mornin...

A company owned by former Premier and businessman Sir John Swan advertised several properties for sale that a family held the deeds to, the Commission of Inquiry in land losses was told yesterday. It was claimed that Sir John’s real estate business, ...