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over its handling of several key issues involving spending.
NLP chairman Charles Jeffers has questioned the appointment of Senator David Burch as the Premier's Chief of Staff and a pay rise given to new Attorney General Lois Browne-Evans.
Mr. Jeffers...
DATE: Apr 12, 1999
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has been blasted as "divisive'' by a leading campaigner for independence.
And, at a public meeting at St. Paul's Centennial Hall last night, attorney Phil Perinchief urged the new Government to hold a referendum on independence.
Mr. Perinchief was on...
DATE: Apr 09, 1999
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deal being offered in British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's White Paper says much about the mood of the Island.
And it also shows that Bermuda remains very much divided on racial grounds when it comes to major issues confronting the Island.
The surv...
DATE: Apr 08, 1999
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shows split in racial, age groups to White Paper By Raymond Hainey More than half of all Bermudians support an end to hanging and flogging as well as tougher financial regulations in return for full UK passports, a new survey has revealed.
But the s...
DATE: Apr 07, 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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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
in 1971 when Britain ended the right of free movement to the UK from Dependent Territories. Bermudians without the right of abode in the UK have been humiliated when visiting the mother country by being directed into the special Dependent Territories...
DATE: Mar 31, 1999
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More rights for gays under the terms of the UK's new deal for the colonies were yesterday blasted by a leading churchman.
And AME pastor Rev. Leonard Santucci accused Government of "hypocrisy'' in appearing to accept the UK terms -- even though many ...
DATE: Mar 23, 1999
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Bermudians who opt to take out full British citizenship would be likely to keep their UK passports -- even if the Island eventually opts for Independence.
Deputy Governor Tim Gurney said: "Anyone who held British citizenship up to that date would ret...
DATE: Mar 20, 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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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
BRITAIN AND THE OVERSEAS TERRITORIES -- A MODERN PARTNERSHIP 1.1 Britain's links with the Overseas Territories are long-standing and important. The relationship is rooted in a shared history: but it moves forward, too, in partnership. For Britain, ...
DATE: Mar 19, 1999
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