8 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "News" author Patrick Burgess
On arrival for a two-day visit on March 8, 1994, hundreds greeted the royal couple at what was still the Civil Air Terminal, where the Queen surprised many by making an impromptu stop to talk to the crowds of children assembled by the gate.
Bermuda w...
DATE: Sep 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
The Queen’s fourth official visit to Bermuda was the culmination of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of English settlement.
The visit, from November 24 to 26 in 2009, came 56 years to the day since the Queen first travelled to Bermuda, but no...
DATE: Sep 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
George Lamming, the Barbadian novelist, has died only five days short of his 95th birthday.
A towering figure in Caribbean letters and fierce proponent of regional unity, his work was part and parcel of other writers from the colonial and postcolonia...
DATE: Jun 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
Former Attorney General (AG) Saul Froomkin has countered suggestions Bermuda should get rid of the Privy Council as the highest Court of Appeal.
Mr. Froomkin, a partner at Mello, Hollis, Jones and Martin, told Hamilton Rotarians yesterday that he was...
DATE: Jul 19, 2000
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
Bermudians have taken a wait and see attitude toward the new Government's policies set out in the Throne Speech.
Plans for truancy officers, scrapping the annual parliamentary registration, and a halfway house all came in for high praise from voters....
DATE: Nov 25, 1998
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
Bermudian people especially the youth, its chairman said last night.
And the party is very concerned that the ruling party denies a chance to vote to students overseas who are a "responsible sector'' of society.
Charles Jeffers was speaking at the th...
DATE: Aug 27, 1998
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
Opposition Leader Jennifer Smith last night told young people at a forum the coming election was "their date with destiny''.
She was speaking at the national Youth Council's second forum with party leaders at the Bermuda College.
Ms Smith said the th...
DATE: Aug 26, 1998
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
Premier Pamela Gordon and Labour Minister Quinton Edness yesterday got a first-hand look at what former prisoners, given a second chance, have accomplished.
Locust Hall of Devonshire had been derelict for 40 years and without a roof for 30 years.
But...
DATE: Feb 10, 1998
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
