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BERMUDA'S pre-clearance privileges with the US "would not radically change" if the island were to go Independent. That was what four members of the Bermuda Independence Commission heard when they met with US officials during a fact-finding mission la...

BERMUDA Independence Commission chairman Bishop Vernon Lambe yesterday criticised Opposition Leader Dr. Grant Gibbons' opinion that the United Nations decolonisation committee has no role to play in Bermuda's Independence debate. At a press conferenc...

BERMUDA Housing Trust chairman Ronald Simmons said yesterday said the Trust had "nothing to hide". Mr. Simmons broke his silence of the past month, in which questions have mounted over the BHT's financial affairs in the wake of huge rent rises for it...

IF the Bermuda Housing Trust (BHT) imposed large increases on its elderly tenants because of maintenance costs, what exactly were those maintenance costs? That's what Opposition MP John Barritt will be trying to find out from Housing Minister Ashfiel...

FORMER Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC) general manager Ed Cowen has admitted that he was mistaken when he suggested ten years ago that Bermuda Housing Trust (BHT) rents should be raised to market levels. And he has now challenged Housing Minister A...

DIETITIANS have warned the public to make sure they get their nutritional advice from properly qualified professionals ? especially when the aim is to improve poor health. Janet Burrull, of Nutrition Consultant Services and a member of the Bermuda Di...

HOUSING Minister Ashfield DeVent came under fire from Opposition MP John Barritt yesterday for suggesting that people would not donate work and money to the Bermuda Housing Trust (BHT) nowadays. Hefty rent increases introduced by the BHT in January ?...

BERMUDA High School has come up with a poignant way of giving both financial and moral support to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. Primary reading specialist Susan Gorbutt came up with the idea of selling "bands of hope" in the form of r...

AMERICAN Eric LaBorie got married in Bermuda five-and-a-half years ago and just two years later lost his wife in the September 11 terrorist attacks. One day he would like to place a bench in Astwood Park, where the wedding took place, in memory of hi...

BOAT operators have been putting themselves forward to run a new water taxi service that a Sandys hotel wants to launch this spring. Georgina Duncan, of Cambridge Beaches, said a recent advertisement in The Royal Gazette had prompted a lot of interes...