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Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon will today launch the United Bermuda Party's counter-attack to Government's Throne Speech. And the speech is set to signal a get-tough approach to Government after it has passed the first-year milestone. Ms Gordon was ...

A vow by Education Minister Milton Scott to rewrite a policy appearing to ban Opposition MPs from state schools is a U-turn, a Shadow Minister claimed yesterday. United Bermuda Party Shadow Education Minister Tim Smith said: "The policy was a bit sca...

Britain is to wheel out its big guns to back Bermuda's bid to get the US military to clean up the old base lands, The Royal Gazette can reveal. And a top-level delegation from the UK Foreign Office and the British Embassy in Washington are set to mee...

the public, according to a street survey by The Royal Gazette . A random sample of six people yesterday showed five were in favour of axing the rope. And support for Bermuda taking capital punishment off the books was most firmly backed by the young,...

Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon as long on words -- but short on action. And she said: "It was a disappointment. It was very long. It was all over the place and it didn't have any focus.'' Ms Gordon added: "The central focus issues of the election -...

the House of Assembly on Friday. And Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons -- who brought the issue forward -- said: "We were waiting for Government to say something, but they've done nothing, so we've taken it upon ourselves.'' The Opposition table...

conflicts of interest in the awarding of contracts. And they denied that anything underhand had happened when firms they were connected to won deals to supply Government. Ex-Education Minister Tim Smith -- who was singled out by Telecommunications Mi...

A policy document said to be a Government ban on Opposition MPs in schools will be rewritten, Education Minister Milton Scott promised last night. Sen. Scott said: "I will be further elaborating on this -- I like principals to have autonomy in their ...

ERROR RG P4 13.11.1999 The October 30 edition of The Royal Gazette erroneously reported in the front page article "Hanging to be abolished'' that Governor Thorold Masefield said the Criminal Code would be amended to affirm Britain's commitment to in...

the first day of the new session of the House of Assembly. The Progressive Labour Party Government's Throne Speech announced that the Criminal Code would be amended to axe both hanging and flogging from Bermuda's law books. And Development and Opport...