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The following is the full text of the Reply to the Budget Statement, which was delivered in the House of Assembly yesterday by Shadow Minister of Finance Eugene Cox.
"Nothing is impossible for a government that wants the good of the people'' -- Etien...
DATE: Feb 27, 1997
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Britain will begin a massive year-long clean-up of oil pollution at the former HMS Malabar before summer, it was confirmed yesterday.
Premier David Saul was speaking after he toured caves used as an oil dump by the Royal Navy with UK Foreign Office M...
DATE: Feb 25, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The British Government has ruled out the appointment of a Bermudian Governor -- at this time.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman told The Royal Gazette that such a move would be "inappropriate''.
The restatement of the UK's position follows ...
DATE: Jan 31, 1997
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Independence crusader Walter Brown.
He sought to pierce Mr. Brown's claim there was a precedent to a local person becoming Governor.
Mr. Brown had criticised the appointment of a Briton, Thorold Masefield, as Bermuda's new Governor.
"Under the Bermud...
DATE: Jan 24, 1997
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participants in the debate seem to assume that a Bermudian Governor is more desirable. That may not necessarily be true no matter how distinguished the candidates who have been suggested, and they are all distinguished. And as far as the list of cand...
DATE: Jan 24, 1997
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Three former political heavyweights yesterday reacted warmly to the idea of a Bermudian Governor.
But only one -- former Senate President Hugh Richardson -- declared he would accept the position.
"I would do so on a temporary basis,'' he told The Roy...
DATE: Jan 22, 1997
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not be universally popular. Bermuda's government is faced with just that situation with long-term non-Bermudian residents.
This important issue would have been settled by the United Kingdom Government if Bermuda had chosen Independence. As with other...
DATE: Jan 21, 1997
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Progressive Labour Party leader Jennifer Smith has been featured in a Caribbean-wide newspaper.
And the article predicts that the PLP could be in its best position ever to beat the ruling UBP at the next general election.
Ms Smith admits in the artic...
DATE: Jan 21, 1997
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of Mr. Thorold Masefield as Governor.
CIB chairman Walton Brown said yesterday that his organisation was displeased that suitable Bermudians had been overlooked for the post.
The CIB has sent the names of four Bermudians -- Sir John Sharpe, Arnold Fr...
DATE: Jan 20, 1997
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yesterday buried the hatchet with Premier David Saul.
Veteran UBP MP C.V. (Jim) Woolridge said as soon as the controversial McDonald's issue was dead, the rebels were prepared to serve.
He added: "We are literally months away from possible election s...
DATE: Jan 18, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
