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Hamilton’s administration remains unchanged after last night’s municipal elections. Charles Gosling stood unchallenged as mayor with residential councillors George Scott, Henry Ming, RoseAnn Edwards and Jenefer Brimmer, who replaces Carlton Johnson. ...

George Dowling III has been elected Mayor of St George beating Kenneth Bascome by 234 votes last night. The announcement was welcomed with loud applause, as the 41-year-old former town councillor earned 363 votes to the veteran politician’s 129 votes...

East End voters will choose a new mayor at the polls in the Town of St George today. The race is down to Kenneth Bascome, a former mayor, and George Dowling III, a councillor, after Quinell Francis announced she was to stand down from the role. Hamil...

A candidate in the race to be Mayor of St George said a police station in the Olde Towne was a priority. Kenneth Bascome, a former mayor who stepped down to become an MP for the One Bermuda Alliance, said he would seek the support of councillors to t...

George Dowling III has promised fresh ideas to revitalise the town and community of St George if elected as mayor. Mr Dowling, who will go head-to-head with Kenneth Bascome in a municipal election on May 9, said that even if the Government replaced t...

The Town of St George will have to go to the polls on May 9 to elect a new mayor, it was revealed yesterday. Kenneth Bascome, a former mayor, and George Dowling III, a councillor, both put their names forward for the post on nomination day after Quin...

Nomination day for the municipal elections will be held tomorrow. The Seventh-day Adventist Church Hall on King Street, Hamilton, will be the location for both municipalities, from 11am to 1pm. The elections are due to take place on May 9. Seats avai...

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...