Bermuda has taken its share of hits in the US press over the last year, particularly, with respect to the oft quoted statement, “that we have tax-free status”. As you and I know only too well each time we stand in line at airport Customs to pay our s...
Government has a series of agencies and programmes that can step in to help people who are at risk of losing their homes or in financial difficulties.
The Department of Financial Assistance can help if:
You have lost your job and need immediate finan...
Historian and activist Eva Hodgson came out with guns blazing at last week's Black Agenda 2003 Forum.
In her sights were the Progressive Labour Party (PLP), United Bermuda Party candidate Al Wharton, education policies and racism.
Only former Bermuda...
THE stars will be coming out at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute next month when actress Jacqueline Bissett and director Peter Yates fly in to both mark the 25th anniversary of the Bermuda-based box office sensation The Deep and launch a ...
THINK of autism and many of us think immediately of the movie Rain Man. Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of an autistic man with a gift for numbers and total recall earned him an Oscar and raised awareness of a condition that had been a complete mystery to...
BERMUDA'S top dressage riders will take on teams from Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic next weekend when the FEI World Dressage Challenge is staged at the National Equestrian Centre at Vesey Street.
This will...
An increasing number of people in Bermuda - including children - are living on the breadline and even on the streets as soaring rents, low paying jobs, and social ills are squeezing them out of their homes.
The Salvation Army has reported seeing grow...
April 7, 2003
IT appears that the "Literary Survey" is nothing more than a poorly disguised attempt to pry into people's savings and incomes with a view to introducing another tax.
The latest absurdity is the extraordinary excuse that the survey is l...
ANOTHER spectacular African Exposition took place over the weekend at the Bermuda Institute School of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Southampton and the highest praise for its success goes to the hundreds who turned out for the feast of entertai...
THERE can be no doubting the fact that the Progressive Labour Party won the 1998 General Election riding the crest of a wave of black voter dissatisfaction. But judging by the sentiments expressed at the recent Black Agenda 2003 forum at St. Paul's C...
