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Bermuda in the White Paper on the dependent territories. Bermudians are being offered British passports, without reciprocal rights for British citizens to live or work on the Island. Britain will also require Bermuda to meet social and financial requ...

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...

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...

proposals to reduce the reserved powers of Governors is an interesting new twist. Of all the changes, the reports that the Governors will lose their plumed hats and uniforms may carry the heaviest symbolism -- but in the long run, changes to the Gove...

Bermuda College hopes to have on-campus accommodation for its students by 2001. And the facility is now set to launch a massive fund-raising campaign to collect the $5 million needed to build the complex. Although designs for the accommodation block ...

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...

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. A party ...

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...

Masefield replaced stems from his refusal to ask the Members of the Public Service Commission to resign. It may be that Premier Jennifer Smith and her Cabinet hope that a veteran politician from the British Labour Party Government would be more sympa...

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...