Governor George Fergusson’s refusal to appoint a Commission of Inquiry to investigate claims of historic losses of citizens’ property through theft and dispossession has highlighted the manner in which unaccountable figures retain important powers under Bermuda’s present constitution. More than 2,000 gathered at Government House to protest the decision – which marked the very first…...
About Dr Benedict Greening
Benedict Greening grew up in Bermuda and started working as a journalist at The Royal Gazette at the age of 17. He continued to work during his gap year and during school and university holidays there until 2004. He has subsequently worked as a journalist in the United Kingdom, first for The Fleet magazine in north London, then for the Willesden and Brent Times and Kilburn Times between 2010 and 2012. From August 2012 until the present, he has worked as an editor for Mail Online India. He also completed his doctoral thesis, which focused on Bermudian history between 1963 and 1977, at the London School of Economics in January 2014.