Tougher rules for Government aid have been given a cautious assessment by the Island’s social agencies.
The stricter measures for both Financial Assistance and Child Day Care will see Government requiring certain clients to take “mandatory life skill...
DATE: Feb 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
January 22, 2013
Dear Sir,
Recently a call was made to grant Bermudian status to the four Uighur refugees stateless and stranded in Bermuda. The call was made by their lawyer and addressed to Premier Craig Cannonier. Even if the new One Bermuda Allia...
DATE: Feb 06, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Please, Mr Acting Editor, I do not mean to make light of the recent double murder and the outrage that has followed when I ask this question: how many times must we go around the political mulberry bush before we take action?
I am trying to make a po...
DATE: Feb 01, 2013 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: John Barritt
January 30, 2013
Dear Sir,
I read an article from Christopher Famous which was both funny yet serious. It was saying: 'Who helped create the gangs? We Did!' and it was right to the point. If we allow the youths to do whatever they want when they're y...
DATE: Feb 01, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Investment professionals are carefully analysing recent central bank policy announcements, particularly those which have lately caused sharp and sudden moves in several of the world’s largest currencies. Last week, headline news surrounding the plung...
DATE: Jan 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Personal Finance | AUTHOR: Bryan Dooley
January 22, 2013
Dear Sir,
In the event former Premier Dr Ewart Brown, a medical doctor, and Lt Col David Burch, a former regimental officer, took legal advice at all; this Uighur caper was a blunder of colossal and disastrous constitutional and inte...
DATE: Jan 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Martin Luther King was an icon of a movement that transformed the United States, the roots of which extended from as far as Ghandi’s India and transcended national boundaries, including Bermuda. Obama’s current challenge as a President attempting to ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Glenn Fubler
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has expressed concern over Bermuda’s “disgracefully inadequate” court facilities.
He also highlighted the rocketing costs of the legal aid system, and called for criminal procedures to be modernised.
In a speech at a special...
American International Group’s (AIG) decision last week not to sue the US Government over the federal bailout of the company in September 2008 could actually help the lawsuit initially filed by former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg’s company, Starr Internati...
DATE: Jan 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
An independent Anti-Corruption Commission with investigatory powers, strong penalties for corrupt behaviour among public officials and whistle-blower protection are among a raft of measures being proposed by former Premier Alex Scott.
Mr Scott has ta...
