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Bermuda: Joke about Premier turns serious

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 22 December 2006 18 years ago

On the heels of Bermuda's Premier aiming racial slurs at former Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons in Parliament, a chef makes a joke and is subsequently fired and deported, leaving Christian Dunleavy to shake his head “at the silliness of it all”.

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