In his first on camera sit down conversation with Think Media, Jason Hayward talks about his motivations, The People’s Campaign and tells what would lead him to drop opposition to the airport redevelopment project. See it here in full: This article belongs to Politica ! The original article can be found here: A sit down…...
Rev Tweed is “immune from expulsion” – lawyer
to stay on island pending outcome of court hearing; presiding elder expresses "jubilation"
Lawyer Delroy Duncan is to argue before a judge that AME pastor Reverend Nicholas Tweed belongs to Bermuda and cannot be ordered to leave. The AME church and Rev Tweed have won the first round of legal proceedings against the government’s decision not to grant him a work permit and to order him off the…...
Minister open to dialogue with churches on work permit policy
work permit policy shift dates back to the Progressive Labour Party government
Home Affairs Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin is open to discuss changes to the work permit policies for churches. Gordon-Pamplin agreed that the policy which requires churches to advertise vacancies for pastors was “worth a conversation”. But she insisted that current policy must be adhered to. She spoke to Think Media following a January 6 press conference…...
St Paul AME Church “riding out the storm” undeterred
Church vows to continue speaking out on social issues in wake of pastor's work permit rejection
After several weeks in the media spotlight over a rejected work permit application for its pastor, St Paul AME church is facing the future undeterred from its social activism role. Rev Nicholas Tweed’s voice at the church regarded as the cathedral of Bermuda’s AME churches has been stilled for now but no one doubts that…...
A dozen police officers hit by pepper spray on December 2
A dozen police officers were affected by their colleagues’ use of pepper spray on protesters outside the House of Assembly on December 2. And more details have emerged about the use of force with police commissioner Michael DeSilva acknowledging that he is only aware of three persons receiving aftercare from police officers after being pepper […]
Bishop appoints new A.M.E. presiding elder
Criticises Premier and acting minister Cole Simons over handling of work permit row
St Paul A.M.E. church now has a new presiding elder – Reverend Howard Dill – in a move which removes administrative responsibility of the church from Reverend Betty Furbert-Woolridge. The development could boost a campaign to force government to rescind its decision not to renew Reverend Nicholas Tweed’s work permit. Bishop Gregory Ingram made the…...
UK indicates airport entrustment conditions not yet met
but Whitehall is "comfortable" with progress
As controversy continues to swirl around the airport redevelopment project, Government House is not yet ready to say that Bermuda has met met entrustment conditions imposed on it by the UK Government. Deputy Governor Ginny Ferson struck a positive note but would only say that the UK was “comfortable” with progress on meeting the conditions…...
Richards: Mayor and Burchall analysis “flawed”
Finance Minister Bob Richards has issued a point by point rebuttal to criticism of the airport project, saying that a critique by Larry Burchall and Craig Mayor was flawed by inappropriately mingling two forms of analysis. At a press conference yesterday he dismissed the pair’s insistence that government had understated the true cost of the…...
Top UK QCs in Mahesh Reddy v Police Commissioner
Former UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith, QC, is to represent physician Mahesh Reddy in his case against the police commissioner. He will be squaring off against Anesta Weekes QC who has been engaged by the Bermuda police service and will be asking the court to strike out Dr Reddy’s judicial review application, according to…...
Pepper spray guidelines caution against use in crowds
Captor "not designed" for crowd control
Captor spray – the form of pepper spray used against unarmed, non-violent protesters on December 2 – was not designed as a crowd control measure. And guidance notes provided by the UK’s chief police officers caution against its use in crowds, and state that it should not be used closer than one metre from the subject…...
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