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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

Maldive MP: Bermuda, Uighurs, Gitmo & More

Two days ago, the Maldivan press reported that an MP said that Bermuda had received $9 million per Uighur we accepted from Guantanamo Bay. Bernews reported the MPs statement, and sought confirmation from our Premier. Later that day, the news report printed a correction stating the MP meant Palau, to which we then updated our report, as well as with... Read more of this article

Maldives: BDA Paid $9 Million Per Uighur [False]

[Edit 12:40pm: Allegations were incorrectly made, MP accidentally said Bermuda, but meant another nation] According to a press report from the Maldives, a government politician claimed that Bermuda was paid $9 million for each Uighur refugee we accepted from Guantanamo Bay in 2009, for a total of $36 million. The report claims that Independent Member... Read more of this article

Guantanamo Uighurs Make $51,000 a Year Each

It has been revealed that the four ex-Guantamamo refugees are being paid $51,000 a year each for their work as groundsmen at the Port Royal Golf Course. The Chinese nationals were granted employment at the Government owned golf course soon after their arrival. The Government Labour Force Survey conducted a few weeks prior [during 13 - 19 May 2009], showed... Read more of this article

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