Sam Strangeways

1 week ago | royalgazette.com | Sam Strangeways

A charity that has given thousands of youngsters the chance to learn through outdoor adventure for more than half a century has had to put its work on hold. Outward Bound Bermuda does not have sufficient instructors and so is not expected to run its popular annual camps for teenagers on Paget Island in the summer. All its other activities, including fundraising, are also understood to be on hold.

2 weeks ago | royalgazette.com | Sam Strangeways

An American music promoter facing extradition to the island over an unpaid $800,000 government loan described meeting with Bermuda Police Service officers at the FBI headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, in a recent, self-published memoir. Savvy Entertainment founder Anthony Blakey wrote that the questions put to him by the two detectives "seemed to come out of left field, completely detached from reality" in Invictus: Dark Faith, which was released last month.

1 month ago | royalgazette.com | Sam Strangeways

Opposition leader Jarion Richardson accused the Progressive Labour Party government yesterday of using civil servants to "shield" elected officials. Mr Richardson claimed it was "unconstitutional" for a public affairs officer at the Department of Communications to have publicly defended the renewal by David Burt, the Premier, of a parliamentary motion concerning the Commission of Inquiry into Historical Land Losses.

2 months ago | royalgazette.com | Sam Strangeways

A government agency hired lawyers to handle a single public access to information request that involved its communications with the Premier about a private investment firm - at a cost to taxpayers of more than $165,000. The outlay on legal fees was disclosed by Major Marc Telemaque, the Cabinet Secretary.

2 months ago | royalgazette.com | Sam Strangeways

Not all staff at the Bermuda Tourism Authority feel "bullied" and "siloed" and some are dismayed at the suspension of chief executive Tracy Berkeley, a source insisted yesterday. The person, who has knowledge of the situation and asked not to be identified, spoke to The Royal Gazette after the quango's board told staff at a meeting on Monday that Ms Berkeley had been placed on administrative leave, along with a fellow executive, understood to be Tashae Thompson.