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Lawyer: Uighurs Should Receive Bermuda Status
Lawyer Richard Horseman has written a letter to Premier Craig Cannonier suggesting that the Bermuda Government pass legislation that will grant the Uighurs, their spouses and children Bermuda status. The four men were released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo and resettled in Bermuda 2009. Controversy erupted after former Premier Dr. Ewart... Read more of this article
NY Post: ‘Uighurs Prisoners In Paradise’
[Updated] The NY Post is running a 4-page feature article on the four Chinese Uighurs who spent more than seven years detained at Guantanamo Bay by U.S. authorities. “Overwhelmed by locals and tourists alike pointing and whispering, the four men shaved their beards, cut their hair, got government-appointed jobs and private housing and began attending... Read more of this article
Curtis: Politics, Uighurs, Faith Based Tourism
Appearing in an interview yesterday [Aug 28] on the Sherri Simmons radio show on Magic 102.7, Andre Curtis talked about a wide variety of issues including his recent incarceration, politics, crime, religion, and the Faith Based tourism plan. He said he is 75% sure he may run for public office, he knew the Uighurs were coming before they arrived, the... Read more of this article
“Sole Mutual Element Is British Superiority”
The sole mutual element of the Bermuda/UK relationship is one of British superiority, said former Premier Dr. Ewart Brown in his speech at the 50-50 Caribbean Conference held in the Cayman Islands today [Mar.22]. Dr. Brown — who stepped down as Premier in 2010 — presented a paper on “Is the UK-OT Relationship Based on Mutual Interests?... Read more of this article
Premier Cox & Dr Brown To Speak In Cayman
[Updated] Premier Paula Cox, former Premier Dr Ewart Brown and political commentator Walton Brown will be speaking at the UCCI/UWI 50-50 Caribbean Conference to be held in the Cayman Islands from March 21 – 23. Dr. Ewart Brown will present a paper on “Is the UK-OT Relationship Based on Mutual Interests? Bermuda and the Uighurs Case Study.”... Read more of this article
WikiLeaks: Bermuda Sought Help on Crime
Bermuda told a a 2009 London meeting of Britain’s overseas territories it had requested British and US law enforcement help to combat the worsening violent crime situation, a WikiLeaks cable reveals. In a cable to the US State Department summarising the 11-member Overseas Territories Consultative Council talks held that December, the American... Read more of this article
Kim Swan: “To Please His American Friends”
Speaking on the much discussed Uighur controversy, Leader of the Opposition Kim.Swan said “It is the final disappointment of the Uighur debacle to learn that former Premier Brown got nothing for Bermuda in his deal with the US Government. It says to us the Premier was either naive or just interested in rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty... Read more of this article
Bermuda, World & Wikileaks Data Release
The expected release of secret communications between the U.S. Government and countries worldwide by Wikileaks started yesterday [Nov 28]. Searching through the data set shows at least one small reference to Bermuda already, however this is not as dramatic as it may seem, as numerous countries are mentioned, and not all cable communication released... Read more of this article
Uighurs Job Loss: “Can’t Afford To Keep Them”
The four Chinese Nationals were laid off with “because of financial constraints,” according to an article in the Washington Post. The Post quotes Rushan Abbas, who initially came to Bermuda to act as their interpreter, as saying “The government praised the men in the letter, saying they had worked hard and done their jobs well, but... Read more of this article
Uighurs Find New Jobs in Private Sector
This afternoon it was announced that the four Uighur men recently laid off from the Port Royal Golf Course had secured employment in the private sector, with the specific company not stated. The four men were released from the offshore US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and resettled in Bermuda in July 2009. They were granted employment at... Read more of this article
Dunkley’s Questions on Uighur’s Employment
Following the news that the four Uighur men are no longer employed at the Port Royal Golf Course, Senator Michael Dunkley has asked about their futures and what will happen to them, asking are “the Uighurs free to seek employment on the island, even though they appear not to be able to comply with Immigration requirements for foreign nationals,... Read more of this article
Witness Against Torture Group Meets Uighurs
Three Christian activists from Witness Against Torture traveled to Bermuda on July 16, 2010 to meet with four Uighur men who were detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for more than seven years, and resettled in Bermuda in 2009. The Bush administration conceded that the men are not “enemy combatants,” and in October 2008 a federal judge ordered their... Read more of this article
