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Helping the youth find productive ways to spend their time has been Gerald Fubler's mission in life since the early 1990s. The former PLP supporter takes on Finance Minister Eugene Cox in the only Sandys district not expected to be a cakewalk for the...
DATE: Jun 26, 2003
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It's anybody's guess whether Independence will be on the Progressive Labour Party's (PLP) manifesto for the coming election.
The ruling party has not given any firmer indication since Jennifer Smith's remarks in the run up to the 1998 election campai...
DATE: Jun 24, 2003
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Outgoing Progressive Labour Party MP Arthur Hodgson has blasted Government for failing to radically change Bermuda.
But he believes the PLP will take the country to independence after winning the next election.
He said Bermuda needed a free medical s...
DATE: Jun 23, 2003
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Independence should be put to the people by way of a referendum, says Progressive Labour Party (PLP) stalwart Reginald Burrows.
Besides being a major shift for the independence advocate, Mr. Burrows' position is now at odds with the official party li...
DATE: Jun 14, 2003
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Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday called the long-awaited election for July 24 and was in a confident mood that the Progressive Labour Party would win a second term in office.
United Bermuda Party leader Grant Gibbons welcomed the news and declared t...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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All's well with the Filipino community in Bermuda, according to Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia, Minister and Consul General at the Washington D.C. embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, who made a whirlwind trip to Bermuda over the weekend to join in the...
DATE: Jun 10, 2003
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Residents at Lefroy House got a breath of fresh air at the unveiling of a new garden yesterday.
Minister of Health and Family Services Nelson Bascome was on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new garden includes multiple seating areas, small h...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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An invitation to attend last week's decolonisation conference in Anguilla was declined because it came too late and Premier Jennifer Smith was already committed to attending Bermuda Day events, according to Ms Smith's aide David Burch.
But the decisi...
DATE: Jun 02, 2003
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Independence makes good economic sense for Bermuda, political scientist and Independence advocate Walton Brown told a gathering on decolonisation last week.
"Independence is certainly no panacea but from a purely economic vantage point it will lend t...
DATE: May 30, 2003
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Bermuda's presence on the list of the world's few remaining colonies has been labelled an "anachronism" by a top Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official.
"Bermuda is as close to independence as she could be without taking that final step," sai...
DATE: May 29, 2003
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