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Ewart Brown v. Director of Public Prosecutions et al: Recusal Ruling

September 10, 2021
Ruling on Ewart Brown's application for the recusal of the judge in Ewart Frederick Winslow Brown, a former Premier of Bermuda who was criminally indicted for alleged corruption in March 2021 v. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Attorney General, and Deputy Governor at Bermuda Supreme Court.

Letter from Bermuda: Premier survives rebellion

May 26, 2009
I delayed writing this letter in the hope that a move to oust Premier Ewart Brown as the leader of the ruling Progressive Labour Party would succeed. Unfortunately, he has survived the challenge to his authority and that is bad

Letter from Bermuda: Searching for solutions in an increasingly violent society

September 9, 2008
 Welcome to Bermuda. In the past few weeks: An informal group of teenagers allegedly stabbed to death one of their own with a screwdriver, to steal his gold necklace. Among those charged was a 15-year-old girl; A drive-by shooting resulted in a young man being shot in the foot; Gunshots were heard mid-morning in an otherwise quiet residential district; and A Senator was "assaulted at knifepoint", apparently because of his political views.

Letter from Bermuda: UK report gives thumbs-down to Bermuda administration

August 11, 2008
Bermuda is Britain's largest remaining colony, and by far its richest. Embarrassed by its imperial past, the administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have done their best to ignore the colonies, except for using the Bermuda Governorship as a bribe when close parliamentary votes need a push in the Government's favour. Bermuda's governing Progressive Labour Party has enjoyed the neglect Britain has shown. The PLP would not have been able to get away with much of its agenda had a socially-conscious parent been paying attention.

Letter from Bermuda: The Keystone Cops, Colonel Klink & a looming general strike

July 9, 2008
After an exceptionally mild spring, summer heat suddenly erupted in Bermuda late in June. Almost simultaneously, the fabric of society fell apart. The prognosis for this summer and fall is at least one general strike against our supposedly labour government, with the potential for riots. And that's before the rise in gasoline prices drives our gas later this year beyond $10 a gallon, our bread beyond $8 a loaf, and our electric bills beyond our reach altogether. Change is coming to the Bermuda economy, and it's going to be ugly.

Allegations of corruption in offshore financial centers highlighted in report to UK Gov’t

July 7, 2008
A new report on British Overseas Territories by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United Kingdom Government has highlighted evidence of corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda and Anguilla. By comparison, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands emerged relatively unscathed. The Committee has recommended that the UK Government sets up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate corruption in the TCI, encourages the Anguillan government to establish an "independent inquiry" to look into corruption, and details the steps it has taken to ensure that allegations of corruption in Bermuda are "properly investigated".

Letter from Bermuda: The end of democracy as we know it as Premier continues to destroy Bermuda

June 11, 2008
Last month was a watershed for Bermuda. Its almost 400-year-old parliamentary democracy ended on May 23, 2008. Without regard to the islands' Constitution, Premier Dr. Ewart Brown suspended the workings of the House of Assembly and later took over the powers of the Speaker of the House. In most other countries, the abrupt cancellation of parliamentary democracy would be cause for much public concern, or at the very least discussion: here, people simply shrugged their shoulders and went back to counting their cash.

Letter from Bermuda: Corrupt Gov’t v. Investigative Journalism

May 9, 2008
Dictators consider the media in their countries as either a tool or a thorn in their sides. Throughout history, repressive leaders have taken control of the media to shut down opposition and the forum they provide for public discussion. The state of a country's media is usually representative of the degree of freedom enjoyed in that country. Bermuda has a daily newspaper, a twice-weekly and a weekly newspaper, all publicly owned. It has three TV channels attached to the US networks, and a number of locally operated channels pump out music videos and travelogues. Four or five radio stations are on the air. More than a dozen magazines are published routinely, year round. A handful of Bermuda-centric books appear every year.

Letter from Bermuda: Bermuda re-elects Third World Gov’t

January 9, 2008
On December 18, Bermuda held its 10th general election since the introduction of party politics in the 1960s. A seven-week election campaign ended in exactly the same fashion as the previous election in 2003 had ended, with a victory by 22 seats to 14 for the Progressive Labour Party (PLP). The campaign, by Bermuda standards, was deeply unpleasant. Dr. Ewart Brown, the PLP leader, set the tone, his very first speech peppered with accusations that his opponents were "vile and vicious" and "demented deviants".

Letter from Bermuda: ‘Ewart the Arrogant’ tries to win his first General Election

December 11, 2007
How confident is our governing Progressive Labour Party that it will win the general election on December 18 of this year? So confident that it has used the campaign weeks to carry out acts of breath-taking arrogance that are unconstitutional and unethical, and maybe unlawful. Our combative leader, Dr. Ewart Brown, has chosen the campaign period to continue his harassment of our Auditor General, the constitutionally appointed arbiter of Government's financial activities. Dr. Brown has been trying to force out the longest-serving Auditor General in the Commonwealth, so that a crony of the Premier's can be appointed to the position.

Insider Talking: December 11, 2007

December 11, 2007
Bermuda took another step down the road from well-respected, relatively-clean, model democracy to internationally-ridiculed, corruption-ridden, banana republic when the office of Bermuda's Auditor General, Larry Dennis, was raided by police for the second time in five months on November 17, 2007; Two ex-clients of jailed former Panama-based offshore financial services provider Marc Harris escaped prison-time when they were sentenced for tax evasion-related offenses at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on November 30, 2007; AM Costa Rica news service reported on November 9, 2007 that the Seccion de Fraudes of the Judicial Investigating Organization raided the offices of Trade Exchange SA, a.k.a. Tradex, on October 30 as part of an investigation into the activities of an expatriate financial consultant, Mark Emory Boswell, a.k.a. Rex Freeman, and his wife, Evelyn Reed; Three former employees of National Westminster Bank Plc - popularly known as the 'NatWest Three' - entered into plea agreements with the U. S. Government on November 28, 2007 in which they admitted their roles in defrauding their employer of $7.3 million in March, 2000 via transactions involving Enron Corp. and a legal vehicle in the Cayman Islands known as LJM Cayman LP Ironically, earlier in November, just before much of the British press were lauding the NatWest fraudsters, several British newspapers published the results of research by offshore banking provider NatWest International Personal Banking that indicated 1 in 10 British expatriates have been victims of banking fraud; and The manner of the collapse of Colorado's last remaining offshore bank, American Intercapital Depository and Trust, known as AIDT, which regulators recently closed down due to "hopeless" insolvency and their belief that the management was dishonest, casts doubt on the credibility of The Offshore Institute, a professional organization whose President, E. Jerry James, was AIDT's guiding force.

Bermuda police raid office of Gov’t financial watchdog for second time

December 11, 2007
Bermuda took another step down the road from well-respected, relatively-clean, model democracy to internationally-ridiculed, corruption-ridden, banana republic when the office of Bermuda's Auditor General, Larry Dennis, was raided by police for the second time in five months on November 17, 2007.

Letter from Bermuda: Ewart Brown – Man of Action (Unfortunately for Bermuda)

August 10, 2007
The danger in appointing a “man of action” to run a country is that he'll get things done, whether they need doing or not. Bermuda has a “man of action” in Premier Ewart Brown. He's starting to get things done. We don't like much of what he's doing, and we definitely don't like the way he's doing it. We think he'll do a lot worse. But we don't care, so long as our wallets are full.

Letter from Bermuda: Premier drags Bermuda into gutter

July 12, 2007
In recent weeks, our premier, Dr. Ewart Brown, has set new lows in the standards of local governance. Sleaze and anger have become his hallmarks, the abuse of power his weapon of choice. He arrests his enemies - coincidentally, he says - without charging them. He throws writs around like confetti, especially against the media, trying to delay publication of details of his alleged misconduct until he can be elected to the office he inherited last October. He accuses unknown white people of a “supremacist oligarchy” and has all but shut down the notion of justice in a country that not long ago had a proud record of integrity and stability.

Auditor-General arrested and released in Bermuda

June 20, 2007
Remarkable events are unfolding in Bermuda - home to the world's third largest insurance and reinsurance market - as the island's government seeks to cover up evidence of corruption against several senior politicians, including Premier Ewart Brown.

Letter from Bermuda: The Mismanagement of Bermuda

June 15, 2007
For four decades, the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) was in parliamentary opposition to the Government of Bermuda formed by the United Bermuda Party (UBP). During those years, what kept the PLP in opposition was the charge that its politicians would not be able to manage the economy. Not one member of the party has ever managed a successful business, including the party's current leader, Premier Dr. Ewart Brown. As a medical doctor, he could hardly go wrong financially, yet he apparently used his employees' payroll deductions to fund his medical practice until he was found out.

Bermuda rocked by corruption allegations, followed by attempt to gag the media

June 10, 2007
Bermuda, which portrays itself to the world as the ‘clean' face of offshore finance, much to the disdain of rival jurisdictions in the Caribbean, has been rocked by evidence of corruption involving several senior politicians, including Premier Ewart Brown. The evidence was contained in a two-and-half-years-old police report into an $8 million corruption scandal at Bermuda Housing Corporation — a government-funded quango set up to build affordable housing — that was leaked to the local Mid-Ocean News newspaper, which had first exposed the scam in 2002.

Letter from Bermuda: Government curtails freedom of speech

March 9, 2007
People who visit Bermuda say that the place is 30 years behind the rest of the world. It's a natural consequence of the isolation of a small group of islands 800 miles from the US and 3,500 from Europe. When visitors comment on Bermuda's out-of-date ways, what they haven't said until now is that, in one important respect, Bermuda is like East Germany was 30 years ago.

Letter from Bermuda: New Premier answerable to no-one

February 9, 2007
A little over eight years ago, when the Progressive Labour Party took office for the first time in its 35-year history, we were promised a "new" Bermuda. It was exciting for a lot of people, especially those who had always felt that they were denied access to the halls of power. Blacks especially thought that the new millennium would bring unlimited opportunity.

Letter from Bermuda: Premier works to undermine British influence

January 7, 2007
The departure from the country's top job of the hapless Alex Scott appears to have taken Independence from the UK off the agenda. Mr. Scott's replacement, Dr. Ewart Brown, has said that, while Independence remains one of his long-term goals, it will not feature high on his to-do list. But our new leader, who admitted he lied to the voters at the last general election for their own good, may not be telling the whole truth. In the first few weeks of his Premiership, Dr. Brown has begun a campaign of destabilising our Governor, the local representative of Her Majesty the Queen.

Letter from Bermuda: Bermuda gets a strong, new Premier

November 9, 2006
As of the end of October, Bermuda's sixth Premier in the past 11 years was sworn in. Only two of the six were elected. The other four were either asked to lead the country by their supporters or simply stole

Letter From Bermuda: Bermuda Government rewards misappropriation

September 4, 2005
In most places, corruption lives in the shadows. Criminals do not receive civic awards, especially if, through their actions, hard working men and women have been denied their legal entitlements. Usually, such Robin Hoods in reverse appear in the crime

Letter from Bermuda: The Greatest Show on Earth

July 31, 2003
Starved as we are for entertainment in Bermuda, the 2003 General Election has been the greatest show on earth. Even those who thought the Progressive Labour Party would be unable to manage the economy believed that they could at least manage themselves. How wrong we were.

Letter from Bermuda: Playing the race card

February 28, 2003
Although our internal differences are often put down to economics, the theme running through Bermuda society these days is racism. No one plays the card better or more frequently than members of our first PLP- controlled black Government, elected in 1998 after what we constantly refer to as "400 years of abuse" at the hands of whites. The first PLP government set out to change the economic order by favouring blacks in the awarding of government contracts. Such behaviour is entirely illegal under our Constitution, but we don't worry much about that. Just this week, our Minister of Transport, Dr. Ewart Brown, who is black, said that Government was embarked on a policy of "compensatory economics — compensating for the injustices of the past."

Letter from Bermuda: Taxi Drivers Rule

June 30, 2002
That Bermuda's taxi drivers are a law unto themselves was proven when a bill to regulate them, which they had bitterly opposed, was defeated in the Senate in June. Equally exposed was the inability of a lawmaker unto himself to make law for the rest of us.

Lines Overseas Management lists on Bermuda Stock Exchange

July 31, 2001
Shares of the parent company of Bermuda-based stockbroker Lines Overseas Management were listed for the first time on the Bermuda Stock Exchange on July 24.A statement that the shares had been approved for listing was made on July 20 without any prior public announcement that an application had been submitted.