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claimed could enable it to put off an election if opinion polls were unfavourable.
Late in the debate, Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness moved to delete a clause in the Parliamentary Election Amendment Act which would enable the Governor on the ad...
DATE: Jun 28, 1997
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A controversial amendment to the employment laws for non-Bermudians is set to ensure a stormy session in the House of Assembly today.
And MPs are likely to sit into the early hours of tomorrow to discuss the amendment -- claimed by Opposition Labour ...
DATE: Jun 27, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Government will be able to postpone elections in the face of natural disasters or wars if a new piece of legislation tabled in the House of Assembly becomes law.
The new legislation, an amendment to the existing Parliamentary Election Act 1978, allow...
DATE: Jun 17, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A bid by former Governor Lord Waddington to win full British citizenship for Bermudians and the UK's other dependant territories was knocked back in the House of Lords last night.
Lord Waddington -- in his first speech in the Lords in five years -- s...
DATE: Jun 12, 1997
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"post-Hong Kong'' will soon be spelled out by new British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
But last night a British Parliamentary expert on Foreign Affairs said there were unlikely to be any major changes in the near future.
It is doubtful the current p...
DATE: Jun 05, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
appears to have called for the resignation of the Permanent Secretary for Education, Dr. Marion Robinson. Sen. Scott has made the call in the wake of an audit of Bermuda's education system carried out by Professor William Poston which found significa...
DATE: Jun 04, 1997
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Bermuda's new Governor has been on a crash course in Bermudian life and culture, he revealed yesterday.
Thorold Masefield, who will be officially sworn in next week, has been mugging up on the Island prior to his arrival.
Mr. Masefield -- in an exclu...
DATE: May 29, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
on Independence.
"The people have already spoken unequivocally on the issue and I will not bring it up again,'' she said.
The handbill has a picture of her father -- Bermuda Industrial Union founder, Dr. E.F. Gordon -- against the words "workers' rig...
DATE: May 12, 1997
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Milligan-Whyte threw in the towel.
And Premier Pamela Gordon is understood to be considering at least three names to replace Mrs. Milligan-Whyte.
The Premier is under pressure to get a new Senator -- and a Leader -- in place before the Senate reconve...
DATE: May 06, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Blair during the summer. We think they will have a good deal more in common than the similarity in their ages. After years of Tory rule in Britain Mr.
Blair, at least for a start, has moved his "new Labour'' Party to the middle ground. Premier Gordon...
DATE: May 05, 1997
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