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attend a United Nations conference on decolonisation.
Political lecturer Walton Brown -- who went to the St. Lucia meeting -- and lawyer Phil Perinchief all joined forces to demand Bermuda attendance at similar conferences in the future.
Mr. Perinchi...
DATE: Jun 09, 1999
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Bermuda's financial sector could be strangled by international red tape forced on it by Britain, a top lawyer has told US attorneys.
And barrister John Collis said that the UK's White Paper on its colonies may signal a drive towards probing which goe...
DATE: May 11, 1999
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The use of the Euro as a major currency could be the first step towards political unification of the EU -- and across-the-board taxation for member states and Overseas Territories like Bermuda, a businessman warned.
Ex-Shell Bermuda chief and Chamber...
DATE: Apr 19, 1999
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takes up the UK offer of full citizenship and the right to live and work in Britain to be subject to the same immigration restrictions in Bermuda as other overseas residents.
Mr. Perinchief said: "Those who do should be invited to take the offer up b...
DATE: Apr 16, 1999
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Britain's voice in Bermuda welcomed survey results showing a majority of Bermudians backed a new deal giving them the right to live and work in the UK.
Deputy Governor Tim Gurney said: "It's heartening that a majority of people support the proposals....
DATE: Apr 12, 1999
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New political Attorney General Lois Browne Evans will be paid a total of $125,000 a year for acting as Government's legal adviser in the House of Assembly.
Mrs. Browne Evans will retain her Minister's salary of around $32,000 with an add-on to take h...
DATE: Apr 03, 1999
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relations with its colonies, Bermuda's smallest political party claimed yesterday.
And National Liberal Party spokesman Graeme Outerbridge warned that the UK offer of full citizenship was "a Trojan horse'' aimed at the Island's booming offshore secto...
DATE: Mar 19, 1999
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of its relations with its colonies spelled trouble for Bermuda's booming offshore business.
And fellow pro-Independence campaigner Rolfe Commissiong branded the offer as "British citizenship lite -- like Miller Lite.'' Mr. Perinchief said: "The way ...
DATE: Mar 19, 1999
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NLP, PLP maverick call for Independence: Page 8 The full text of the White Paper begins on Page 41 Enviroment Minister backs ecological push: Page 5 Editorial: Page 4 Bermuda will have to fight to keep the Island's squeaky-clean image untarnished...
DATE: Mar 19, 1999
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Territories, Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon said last night.
And she said -- no matter what the British view -- an offer of full citizenship could not be divorced from the UK insistence on tough laws to beat white-collar crime and human rights legis...
DATE: Mar 18, 1999
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