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Dr. Brown hands back powers to AG

Posted: December 30, 2007 in Bermuda, bermuda politics
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Premier Dr. Ewart Brown has handed back responsibility for the Judiciary, Legislature and the Department of Public Prosecution that he alarmingly took from new Attorney General Kim Wilson after the election. According to a Cabinet office statement published in The Royal Gazette, he announced:

“The Attorney General has confirmed that those private matters which might have made the assumption of these ministerial responsibilities unduly burdensome have been resolved and I am happy to return those areas of responsibility to her. I certainly have enough to do.”

So what was all that about? Was this really a genuinely temporary arrangement or did someone tell the Prem that consolidating power this way was a no-no? As shadow AG John Barritt told the Gazette:

“There is no question that what was originally put out there was wrong, not only for appearances but because there should be a separation of the executive and judiciary and prosecution.”

Clyde Best featured in Telegraph

Posted: December 29, 2007 in Bermuda, football
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Nice piece by Patrick Barclay (brother of my good friend, Bermuda-based journo Charles) about Bermuda soccer legend Clyde Best in this week’s Sunday Telegraph. It’s hard to explain the impact Best had at the time he played for West Ham (late 1960s) when soccer in the UK was predominantly white. He was a terrifically powerful centre forward and made such an impression on me as a kid that when I was applying for a job in Bermuda in 1982, the only things I knew about the Island were Bermuda shorts, the Bermuda Triangle and that it was where Clyde Best came from. In person he’s an absolute gentleman and a nicer guy you couldn’t wish to meet who still eats, sleeps and drinks football. Such was his impact in the UK that in 1997, more than 25 years after Best last played for the Hammers, when West Ham beat Scottish side Clyde on a pre-season tour, the Sunday Mirror headlined the match report: “Hammers are Clyde Best!”

Memo to Bill Zuill …

Posted: December 20, 2007 in Bermuda, bermuda politics
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Thaao Dill as a senator?!! That just shows where the right media bias can take you.

    Memo to Bill Zuill: suggest you change the paper’s name to The People’s Gazette, drop those silly BHC stories and you could be Minister of Misinformation before you know it.

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