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The House of Assembly dissolved into uproar yesterday as the Opposition proposed that Governor Lord Waddington's salary be slashed to $1 a year.
The motion from the Progressive Labour Party's Mr. Stanley Morton was finally ruled out of order, but onl...
DATE: Feb 25, 1995
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Independence for Bermuda, it causes a cheer in the Cayman Islands. As a result, a reader has sent us a 1994 BusinessAge special section on business in the Cayman Islands.
It is amazing how closely Cayman, which was once associated with Jamaica but ch...
DATE: Feb 24, 1995
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paid by vouchers.
Management and Technology Minister the Hon. Grant Gibbons made the announcement on Wednesday as the House of Assembly debated the Budget.
Defending the $5 hike in the departure tax to $20, he said there were fears that fears what it...
DATE: Feb 24, 1995
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more social spending and cuts in Customs duties while criticising tax hikes imposed by Finance Minister the Hon. David Saul.
But Shadow Finance Minister Mr. Eugene Cox was short on details about how the Progressive Labour Party would pay for increase...
DATE: Feb 23, 1995
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reply to the Budget yesterday.
And he claimed a Progressive Labour Party Government would probably bankrupt the Island.
Shadow Finance Minister Mr. Cox's response was "weak in content and fact'','' he said.
"It offers no real meaningful solutions, no...
DATE: Feb 23, 1995
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have been warning from the beginning of the Independence debate that there was a major downside to the consideration on Independence. As former Cabinet Minister Michael Winfield said in our story yesterday, "The best possible scenario for success is ...
DATE: Feb 23, 1995
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MR. SPEAKER, "Government must be responsive to the needs and the dreams of its people.''-- Mary Ellen Withrow "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be...
DATE: Feb 23, 1995
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Independence for a cash crisis facing the proposed Bermuda Financial Centre.
And Mr. Winfield, who strongly supported Independence in Parliament before quitting Cabinet to focus on the BFCL, of which he is president, now admits debate over the contro...
DATE: Feb 22, 1995
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people now expect to have their say, pro or con, at a referendum. The decision on holding a referendum has yet to be taken by the House of Assembly and the Senate but it must pass and we do not think that a few parliamentarians who are unhappy with t...
DATE: Feb 21, 1995
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Independence.
But both those things were on the minds of Bermudians on Saturday as they watched a parade in Hamilton celebrating 200 years of Royal Navy presence on the Island.
Hundreds of Bermudians -- black and white -- lined Front Street. As a Roy...
DATE: Feb 20, 1995
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