Rising to the Premier’s challenge that he’s seen larger and longer protests than the current one over his leadership, another protest is being organised for Friday at Parliament at noon. Parliament is meeting but the Premier is scheduled to be off island, attending the start of the Marion-Bermuda Yacht Race and Glenn Jones’ Bo’Sox opener. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Constitution'
Constitutional Irony
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Bermuda Politics
Last month, during the insurrection against Dr. Brown by the PLP backbenchers, Dame Jennifer Smith refused to support the overthrow attempt because it went against the PLP Constitution. With admirable restraint, she said the rules must be followed. Given that stance, it is painfully ironic that the PLP has such problems with defending the Bermuda [...]
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Consider Carefully
June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The Governor gave a press conference this morning: “Because it breaches the Constitution, this exchange of notes [leading to the Premier's Great Uighur adventure] which was negotiated and sent on June 10, was in our view, invalid. In other words, the Bermuda Government’s action to solicit the arrival of the four Uighurs was unacceptable. I [...]
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Ewart Got Played?
June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The BBC is reporting: In a highly unusual move, a senior US official said Washington opted to keep details of the deal from London until the last minute to enable Britain to deny all knowledge of the deal and thus avoid China’s anger. You can read this in several ways – one view is that [...]
Commanding Confidence
May 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
In The Mid Ocean News this week, UBP MP John Barritt points out that, while the Premier may be able to dominate his disgruntled backbenchers within internal PLP meetings, he may not be able to do so in the House of Assembly. Most Bermudians assume that the party leader of the party that dominates the [...]
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By Oath
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Bermuda Politics
The Royal Gazette (also covered on radio with the exception of the HOTT echo chamber) this morning reports that the Premier has asked the Cabinet Ministers to sign an oath of allegiance to him in the lead up to tonight’s PLP catfight over his leadership. Clearly the Premier has moved hard to out-manoeuvre the dissenters [...]
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Weak Constitution
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Bermuda Politics
It is my belief that Bermuda has an official culture of meddling and short cuts. I suppose that’s natural in such a small community. Bermuda has a bit of a conundrum: Our controversial Premier is the subject of a dispute within his own party on his suitability for the job. His supporters and some of [...]
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