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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...
DATE: Nov 27, 1997
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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 ...
DATE: Nov 21, 1997
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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 ...
DATE: Nov 20, 1997
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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 ...
DATE: Nov 19, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
for failing to give citizenship to long-term residents.
Trevor Moniz MP, who represents Smith's South, last night told The Royal Gazette he was "ashamed'' of the UBP for failing to naturalize residents who have lived on the Island for 20 years or mor...
DATE: Oct 27, 1997
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Progressive Labour Party activist Rolfe Commissiong has been suspended from meetings of the party's Central Committee and Parliamentary Committee amid a row over a newspaper interview.
And he has been asked to appear before a special disciplinary com...
DATE: Oct 24, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
`What Scotland actually has is a decentralised system rather than independence. It's not gone off on its own. But people on the Island, irrespective of status, seem confused about what the position is.' -- Ian Davidson A Scots MP visiting Bermuda se...
DATE: Oct 20, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
the people of Montserrat who are being subjected to a protracted natural disaster. There is great dignity in generosity to others. That is especially true in this particular case since Montserrat is another small island in our own area of the world w...
DATE: Oct 09, 1997
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Coxall will mean the end of Operation Cleansweep. Bermuda was promised that the elaborate arrests of street pushers was just the beginning of a larger plan which would next target importers of illicit drugs. Now people are beginning to wonder if this...
DATE: Oct 06, 1997
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"People's Five'', resigns today it will come at a bad time for the United Bermuda Party Government.
No Government wants the uncertainty and distraction of a by-election so close to an election. The UBP would have to find a strong candidate and win, a...
DATE: Sep 05, 1997
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