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Deputy Governor Peter Willis said this week. Mr. Willis was speaking after reports that the chief minister of the Caribbean island of Anguilla said he was suspicious of a UK plan to abolish two parliamentary positions. And some reports said it was fe...

When Hong Kong returns to China, Bermuda will be the most populous of the few remaining British colonies. It may well be expected to take the lead in talks with Britain to establish a new status for those small states which have chosen to remain with...

Airport yesterday. That debate was in the wake of the vote by Members of Parliament to outlaw foreign fast food franchises. The passage of Ann Cartwright DeCouto's bill prevents Grape Bay from opening McDonald's at the Airport, one on the departure c...

smiling. Dr. Saul spoke to the Pembroke West United Bermuda Party branch only days after a bill backed by five rebel MPs to outlaw fast food with a foreign flavour passed in the House of Assembly with Opposition PLP support. Pembroke West's Dr. David...

defiant C.V. (Jim) Woolridge last night told The Royal Gazette . The rebel MP issued the warning shortly after the UBP passed a constitutional amendment which would discipline members who don't tow the party line. Calling the vote a "foregone conclus...

Bermuda must upgrade product and services, says Gibbons Continued from Saturday's newspaper Finance Minister Grant Gibbons stressed that Bermuda had to upgrade its product and services. In other areas that were not doing as well, he continued, it h...

At times, Governor Lord Waddington could almost have been propping up a House of Commons bar. Sporting a blue jacket, he is chatty, convivial and full of anecdotes -- a million miles from the image of the bluff, no-nonsense Lancashireman he earned du...

Mr. Speaker, and Members of this Honourable House. It is my duty and responsibility as the Leader of the Opposition to lead the Opposition's response to the speech from the Throne. Mr. Speaker, I accept the responsibility with humility, but also enth...

flayed the UBP's 32-year record in power and vowed: "We will form the next Government.'' In her first Throne Speech reply, Ms Smith accused Government of: Forking out millions of dollars on a new senior school -- while students today lacked basic e...

The son of a Welsh-born roads engineer is set to carve out a new path of his own -- as a member of Bermuda's Senate. For retired top civil servant Walwyn Hughes, who sat behind Senators during budget debates, is moving one step forward to take up a s...