Finding affordable housing is a main concern among young voters, many of whom will make their voices heard for the first time in the coming election on July 24. Despite the fact that Bermuda's population is ageing, and with some of the hottest issues...
BECAUSE Bermudians' memories tend to be shorter than Ren?e Webb's notorious fuse, I decided to look up what the Progressive Labour Party actually said prior to their victory in 1998. Having done so, my advice to your readers who intend to vote in the...
THE Government's soft-on-crime approach is the Major Irritant of the Week.
Isn't it funny how crime figures are supposedly down and yet community fear levels have gone through the roof?
I'm sure the Government will drag out the usual trite and worn e...
Probably Bermuda's smallest and most densely populated constituency, Pembroke South East is solid Progressive Labour Party territory.
Broadcaster Ashfield DeVent will be a racing cert to take Constituency 21, the crime hit district which includes the...
E-commerce will not be the third pillar of the economy in Bermuda - rather it will be something that touches all parts of the economy and all businesses, according to the Government's E-commerce advisor Nigel Hickson.
And he said that e-commerce coul...
Stop this pollution
July 1, 2003
Dear Sir,
The daily RG is now full each morning of the promises and commitments made by PLP and UBP candidates. Notably absent is any sincere undertaking with respect to Bermuda's only true capital, the environment. W...
A: We've been doing a lot of listening over the last four or five years. After the 1998 election we were thinking very hard about what kind of a government Bermuda needs to move it forward in the 21st Century. There are a couple of things we learned ...
"So not all the buses are going to Cuba."
Minister of Transportation Ewart Brown handed a bus over to Environment Minister Denis Lister and Bermuda Museum, Aquarium and Zoo's education officer, Holly Hoder, and new principle curator Brian Lightbourne...
A revised completion deadline is at last to be announced for the new secondary school project with a promise that it will be finished in a matter of months, Works Minister Alex Scott has claimed.
He said he had been given a new date for the completio...
July 30, 2003
Dear Sir,
Last weekend I was asked why I thought that we needed a New United Bermuda Party Government and what was so wrong with the PLP?
On the surface, that is an easy question to respond to but there are deeper issues to consider.
On...
