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A former PLP candidate and lawyer yesterday warned Bermuda faces a stark choice between full UK citizenship and Independence.
But Philip Perinchief claimed Government was sitting on the fence over the issue.
And he said Government had "no choice'' bu...
DATE: Mar 17, 1999
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A Scots MP yesterday moved to quell a mini-Civil War in the House of Commons over the name of a new Bermuda/Britain parliamentary pressure group.
And Ian Davidson said the UK Commonwealth Parliamentary Association group designed to promote better rel...
DATE: Mar 10, 1999
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pressure to stand as an independent candidate, UBP members said yesterday.
Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto lost out in the vote for the official nomination -- but now angry supporters want her to stage a solo run under the "Independent UBP'' banner.
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DATE: Mar 09, 1999
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special pressure group set up to push Island interests.
For the Anglo-Bermudian branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association has been revived after years of neglect.
And Scots MP Ian Davidson -- who visited the Island as part of a CPA delegat...
DATE: Mar 08, 1999
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Full British nationality for Bermudians will be in the long-awaited White Paper on Britain's rewrite of relations with its Overseas Territories, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
And there will be no two-way street on residency rights for British mainlan...
DATE: Mar 04, 1999
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Paget West by-election for the United Bermuda Party in a two-horse race against ex-MP Ann Cartwright DeCouto. But the move could now spark a stand by ex-party deputy chairman David Sullivan in protest at a claimed railroading of the UBP's constitutio...
DATE: Mar 04, 1999
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Progressive Labour Party veteran Lois Browne Evans yesterday said the controversial decision to call for a boycott of the Island's referendum on Independence was the right course to take.
Mrs. Browne Evans said: "I think it was the best thing still -...
DATE: Feb 22, 1999
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Bermuda's offshore competitor the Cayman Islands has dismissed claims the British colony would opt for independence rather than open the records of its banking system to outside scrutiny.
The Caymanian Compass newspaper quoted "a high level Cayman go...
DATE: Feb 11, 1999
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A new deal for business should speed up the start-up time for international companies which want to base themselves in Bermuda.
And a twin-pronged approach by the Ministers of Finance and Immigration is expected to synchronise company incorporation w...
DATE: Feb 05, 1999
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Party.
And a new label and logo could be part of the rebuilding programme embarked on by the party in the wake of its hammering at the polls last month.
Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said: "We have to address the suggestions which have been made --...
DATE: Dec 08, 1998
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