Dr. Brown has created a real mess by cutting out the Governor on his “Stay one night at the Fairmont and get 4 Uighurs free” tourism promotion. In Bermuda, we are used to murky controversy going wherever our operatic Premier goes. Sounds like the State Department, in their rush to seal the deal, didn’t check [...]
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UBP Comments on Guantanamo Farce
June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Bermuda Politics
Bermuda is getting more international news coverage than ever in its history over Ewart’s Uighur farce. Most locals are just stunned by the ridiculousness of the situation. After wiping the disbelief off his face, Shawn Crockwell, the UBP’s Shadow Minister for Immigration and Labour, released some comments this afternoon: Brown brings Guantanamo to Bermuda Bermudians [...]
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Bermuda Takes in Guantanamo Prisoners
June 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Bermuda Politics
The Premier this morning announced that Bermuda has agreed to resettle four newly-released prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison. The Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority from the Xinjiang province of far-west China, were living in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan run by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, a Uighur independence group the State Department [...]
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