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Bermuda's future Police Commissioners could be chosen by a special committee independent of Government and the Governor, Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness said yesterday. He explained: "An independent body could be set up and a method for selectin...

the lead in discussions in London next February on the status of the remaining British Dependent Territories. Incredibly, since the going of Hong Kong, Bermuda is now the largest territory remaining of the once huge British Empire. Not only is Bermud...

Police Service by the politically motivated dumping of Commissioner Colin Coxall there has been a fair amount of pooh poohing from the politicians. But then they would do that, wouldn't they, since they got Bermuda in this mess to start with. This ne...

PLP Environment spokesman Leon (Jimmy) Williams entered the debate to say the rights of all Bermudians had to be protected. And he slammed Government for being "uncaring'' and dangling a carrot offering citizenship to long-term residents before the I...

exercises that right all the time both in terms of a stop list, who it allows to stay in Bermuda and how long it allows them to stay. Foreign nationals do not have a right of access to someone else's country. Therefore it is very puzzling sometimes w...

after an editorial in yesterday's edition called for the Commissioner of Police to be a outsiders-only job. Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness kicked off the attack and said that banning Bermudians from the top job would have a disastrou...

is much more intense than that which normally comes before a general election. What is wrong? People have seen rules changed for politicians, laws bent, the Constitution ignored. They are confused about the future of the Police Service. They perceiv...

Bermuda's relations with the UK off her own bat. And she said raising the controversial subjects of a Bermudian Governor and full Government control of the Police during meetings with top Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers would not have been ...

proposals to the British Government on the Island's constitutional status. What has been confirmed is that Ms Gordon and some of her colleagues made informal suggestions to the British Government that more control of the Police be transferred to the ...

Premier Pamela Gordon has suggested the UK Government consider a Bermudian Governor and total Island control of the Police force, according to British political insiders. But -- according to UK House of Commons sources -- such a demand could spark a ...