June 28, 2006
ON Monday morning we were woken bright and early with a VSB news flash from our very own “democratically” elected/selected P. — an excerpt from his winding-up speech for this Parliamentary session. Just in case anyone has managed to mis...
I HAVE always been loath to criticise people who have accepted a Queen’s honour because I have considered that is their personal right to accept or decline such awards. However, from a personal point of view, my position would be quite clear if such ...
Independence Day, along with Thanksgiving, is perhaps the quintessential American holiday. It is an annual summer tradition that Americans ? and friends of America around the world ? cherish and anticipate with joy.
July 4th means fun with family and...
Bermuda's reputation as a safe place for tourists is being eroded by a small number of criminals stealing from visitors on the beach, snatching bags from the baskets on the back of tourist mopeds or actually breaking into their guest house and hotel ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
A new perspective has been put on the ?house nigger? controversy by after he said he did not agree with name calling.
But he went on to explain his interpretation of the origins of the phrase and why it continues to cause so much anguish in Bermudian...
DATE: Jun 24, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
THE Progressive Labour Party recently held a forum on Independence, the third in a series of five road shows intended to better educate the public on the matter. I confess I don't know how Bermuda would fare as an Independent nation, but then again n...
IF any one word could be used to describe the widespread feeling in the community concerning the recent pay hikes for Bermuda's Members of Parliament, that word would not be "palatable."
Clearly, it remains true that in Bermuda the more things seem t...
THE letter writer Veritas (Mid-Ocean News, May 20) states that trying to engage me in a rational discussion on Independence is as unprofitable and exhausting an exercise as challenging an octopus with no sense of fair play to an arm-wrestling competi...
Tourists hospitalised after scooter accident
A vacationing couple had to be hospitalised on Wednesday night after an accident on their rental scooter.
The couple was travelling east on Middle Road in Smith?s, near Store Hill, when the driver, a 56-ye...
October 18, 2006
SO the curtain is up on Act II of a saga some hack would no doubt title Brown’s Revenge. With the score left unsettled after the first attempt to seat Dr. Brown as Premier, it seems another bloodless coup is in the offing. And melodr...
