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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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As Bermuda and the other Overseas Territories await the British Government's White Paper on new arrangements for the 21st century, the chief minister of the Isle of Man has called a meeting at which members of the Tynwald, the island's Parliament, wi...
DATE: Feb 26, 1999
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misrepresented'' over anti-gay comments in the Upper House.
Sen. Pamela Gordon Pamplin -- who said she did not agree with the 1994 Act legalising gay sex and would not have voted for it if she had been an MP -- insisted she had not called for the law...
DATE: Feb 25, 1999
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into temporary accommodations after a weekend fire burned much of their school. "They're going to be housed at the Whitney Institute tomorrow and Tuesday,'' said Vivlyn Cooper, senior education officer. ---- Page 2 PERSERVERANCE PAYS OFF PTL IND ...
DATE: Feb 22, 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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Director of Public Prosecutions. ---- Page 3 Accused `set up' by fiancee An American whose suitcase contained $210,000 of drugs was just an unaware mule who could have been set up by his own fiancee and a friend, a court heard. ---- Page 5 MARRIOT...
DATE: Feb 11, 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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moves too far towards linking its currency to that of the European Union (EU), according to a report in the London Daily Telegraph .
A former treasury Minister, David Cannan, has tabled a motion in the Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament. The motio...
DATE: Jan 25, 1999
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well established as the preferred form of democracy in most current and former British colonies.
Two recent landslide election results in the Caribbean demonstrate the system's weaknesses more than its strengths.
The governing parties in Barbados and...
DATE: Jan 23, 1999
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