A right to object
January 31, 2008
Dear Sir,
I write in response to a letter (January 29) in which Mr. Makai Dickerson scolds residents of St Augustine Hill for objecting to the construction of a high-density transient housing complex in their neighb...
It's no wonder the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences (BIOS) feels like family to Warren Smith, most of it is family.
Warren works at BIOS with four generations of his family counting the grandchildren that are now tottering around.
His father Alfr...
New MP Mark Pettingill seems ideally suited to his new role as Shadow Attorney General.
But while he has years of experience in court both defending and prosecuting, he won't be carried away with his confidence and end up criticising Government for t...
Friday's Throne Speech - leaving aside the unscheduled visit from the members of the Bermuda Public Service Union - was always likely to be something of an anticlimax given that most Government plans had already been well flagged in the general elect...
Free child care for children under four, better health coverage for seniors and interest-free loans to buy homes were the key elements of yesterday's Throne Speech as Government seeks to carry out election promises.
And there were new pledges to intr...
This is the full text of the Throne Speech delivered by Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday:
Henry Clay once said:
"The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer."
Over the past several months the Government has outline...
Government and the Opposition united yesterday to express their condolences to the family of 15-year-old Dakarai Tucker, who tragically died last Friday after suffering an aneurism.
Dakarai was rushed to Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital in Baltimore...
It is said that 'a wise man builds his house upon the rock' but what if the rock is limestone, and what if the ocean's acidity is increasing all the time?
This is the question that the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is posing to more than...
Where's the support?
January 26, 2008
Dear Sir,
Regardless of all the objections and complaints it looks like Belco is going ahead with their plans to expand. More and more it shows that the citizens of Bermuda have no say whatsoever on what goes on ...
To increase awareness of heart disease diagnosis one of Bermuda's busiest health units has announced open houses for the public.
Education about heart disease, its prevention and diagnosis is key as one out of every two Bermudians are affected by it....
