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Pressure group Preserve Marriage Bermuda has urged the Bermuda Government to call a referendum on same-sex marriage. About 70 representatives of the “active task force” held a press conference in the Office Suite Solutions building in Mill Creek yest...

Tawana Tannock, the Human Rights Commission’s newly appointed president, sees “exciting and dynamic times” ahead for human rights in Bermuda. “Human rights have been at the forefront of Bermuda’s imagination for the last three years — it’s a great ti...

Lawyer Tawana Tannock is the new chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission. Ms Tannock, who has been appointed for the 2016-18 term, is joined by deputy chairman John Hindess and commissioners Ben Adamson, Carla Lambert, Kim Simmons, Donna Daniels, F...

Why do we need a Human Rights Act when we already have a Constitution? In a Letter to the Editor published on December 19, Mr Khalid Wasi commented on the recent ruling of the Chief Justice, in the “Bermuda Bred” case concerning the grant of work per...

Good day, My name is Debre Evans, I am 15, and I seem to have a bigger heart than most of you people. Why do you hate gay people? There’s no reason good enough to hate someone so much that you drive them to a point where they want to kill themselve...

Dear Sir, Following up on my previous letter of December 10, titled “Leave notion of marriage to society”, where I made the point that Chief Justice Ian Kawaley’s ruling could give one the impression that persons’ rights as asserted by the Human Righ...

The same-sex debate may have ruffled a few feathers and has been greeted by opponents with grunts of indignation, but in the greater scheme of things, this isn’t an issue that needs lengthy discussion. Equal rights are not malleable. Freedom of choic...

Dear Sir, The question: Have you ever disliked someone so much that in your frustration to deal with their unrighteous behaviour, you asked God to punish them? The response: Maybe once or twice. The question: What was your request? The response: ...

Dear Sir, I sat on the Human Rights Commission when its Act gained primacy over all the Acts; essentially meaning that whenever an Act came into conflict with the human rights law, the Human Rights Act would be the determinant. I am not a lawyer, bu...

A complaint will probably be made to the Human Rights Commission about a hotel’s refusal to host two talks by a same-sex marriage opponent. Melvyn Bassett, spokesman for a group going by the names Preserve Marriage and Concerned Citizens of Bermuda, ...

A same-sex couple’s application to marry remains “under review”, according to Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs. However, Senator Fahy said that the Matrimonial Causes Act 1974 “makes it clear that a marriage other than between a man and a w...

Same-sex partners of Bermudians will get the same right to reside and seek work as spouses of Bermudians in less than three months. Chief Justice Ian Kawaley yesterday declined the Bermuda Government’s application for the declaration to be delayed fo...