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Independence Cabinet Committee, Premier Sir John Swan joined Committee members and fielded questions on Independence from the audience last week. Committee Chairman the Hon. Irving Pearman invited the Premier to respond to questions raised by the Gre...

I think I have made my position on how to vote very clear. The process by which one nation administers another as a colony was meant to allow for a period during which a country whose people were backward in the art of governing themselves took lesso...

Hurricane Felix hitting the Island a few hours before polling stations open, the Premier said yesterday. But it is possible voting could be stopped and polling stations closed if conditions get too bad. Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan issued a stateme...

Much debate on Independence has focused on its costs -- but little has been said about the prospects for the Island's economy. In the penultimate story in its series on Independence before tomorrow's referendum, The Royal Gazette finds views on the e...

Independence for Bermuda is clearly in the hands of the PLP. All it has to do is decree that it's supporters vote "yes'' and Independence will become a reality. Why don't they do so if they are sincerely for Independence and not just playing with it?...

We are now coming to the end of a chapter in Bermuda's history. It is, of course, also the beginning of another chapter. Tuesday, August 15th 1995 is a day when every voter must follow their conscience. I am, as everyone is by now well aware, urging ...

than a person's vote. Yet that vote is of no value unless it is used. Voting is the way you get what you want in a democracy rather than what someone else wants. If you do not vote, then you really have no say in what happens to you or your country. ...

is increasingly being spoken about in terms of race. But educator and author Dr. Eva Hodgson said Government Cabinet Ministers have done an about-face on racism. And she said the change in attitude is suspect. "People have to vote the way they feel,'...

Government has consulted with the Attorney General about the possible need to delay Tuesday's Independence referendum, should the Island be hit by Hurricane Felix, the Premier said yesterday. "If you were being hit on Tuesday by a hurricane, you coul...

last night, promising to build more recreational facilities if he remains Premier after Tuesday's referendum. Sir John, who has pledged to resign in the event of a `no' vote, blamed others in his United Bermuda Party Government for a lack of things f...