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A United Bermuda Party approved candidate yesterday called for the old wing of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to be turned into sheltered housing for senior citizens.
Charles Hollis said: "Space now used for Government offices could easily be ...
DATE: Mar 17, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda Constitution prompted a heated debate in the House of Assembly late Wednesday night.
Renee Webb (PLP) said the clause which -- bars born Bermudians holding dual citizenship from serving in Parliament -- was discriminatory.
Her motion urged th...
DATE: Mar 13, 1998
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"government in waiting''. It has to have seen Tuesday's results as approval of its optimism. Yet the PLP knows that by-elections are an uncertain barometer and are often used by voters to send a message to a government when they are not in danger of ...
DATE: Feb 26, 1998
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PLP member Rolfe Commissiong could find himself in hot water for a second time after he made an unsolicited phone call to a Royal Gazette journalist and spoke with him about an internal party matter.
Mr. Commissiong made the phone call on Wednesday a...
DATE: Feb 13, 1998
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plays in Bermuda's politics. Given the statements by the party's spokesman, Graeme Outerbridge, printed in this newspaper yesterday, it is time for the NLP to tell the public just how many members it has and where it thinks it is going.
It seems to u...
DATE: Feb 11, 1998
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Premier Pamela Gordon and Labour Minister Quinton Edness yesterday got a first-hand look at what former prisoners, given a second chance, have accomplished.
Locust Hall of Devonshire had been derelict for 40 years and without a roof for 30 years.
But...
DATE: Feb 10, 1998
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A front-page story in yesterday's paper incorrectly quoted National Liberal Party spokesman Graeme Outerbridge as stating that the party would support the removal of capital punishment on its own "with British arm-twisting''. It should have stated "w...
DATE: Feb 10, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
was the highly conciliatory and very friendly tone set by the British. Mother was clearly nurturing the small children rather than setting them straight.
This was no more in evidence than when the Foreign Office talked of "a new partnership'' with th...
DATE: Feb 06, 1998
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forge better links with its colonies, it was revealed yesterday.
The UK Labour Government has already unveiled plans for a massive reform of the largely hereditary Upper House.
And PM Tony Blair's administration could use the transformation to create...
DATE: Jan 28, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
to be reinvented to lobby at the highest levels of Westminster.
The committee of British MPs will forge links with Bermudian lobbyists and politicians and help push Bermuda's case on key economic and political issues.
It means Bermuda will have a new...
DATE: Jan 22, 1998
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