Premier Alex Scott last night hailed the performance of Bermuda in a pioneering new literacy survey ? and hinted at its implications for the ongoing independence debate.
Mr. Scott told a PLP meeting in Pembroke how he was asked at the press conferenc...
It has been a long held ambition of Dr. Brown to become both leader of the Progressive Labour Party and the country.
He has been cast as the main protagonist of the events of 2003 which saw the PLP?s first Premier, Dame Jennifer Smith?s term of offic...
Those who think Bermuda can gain Independence without igniting the emotions of her people are either mischievous or naive, according to Deputy Premier Ewart Brown.
Having experienced first-hand the birth of Jamaica as an independent nation, he recogn...
DATE: Apr 17, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
NEW YORK (AP) ? As the US population ages, the elderly are becoming a prime target for financial abuse.
Sometimes the thief is a stranger who befriends a lonely senior. Other times it?s a caregiver with sticky fingers. In still other cases, it?s a te...
"We will ensure there is a place for everyone in this country. We want to ensure a sense of security for both winners and losers . . . I urge you whether you are black or white, to join me in a new pledge to forget our grim past, forgive others and f...
? Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in 2000.
I HEARD Robert Mugabe's victory address to the newly-created nation of Zimbabwe when it was carried live by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's short-wave radio service (Canada is one of many Western natio...
April 11, 2006
I READ in the April 7 Mid-Ocean News Alvin Williams' Commentary on the Council on Hemispheric Affairs position paper on Bermuda Independence. Mr. Williams finds irony in the fact that an American group, Americans having fought for Inde...
Lights at Tee StreetApril 8, 2006Dear Sir,Yet another accident at the South Shore end of Tee Street on April 6. Both ends of this road are notorious accident spots, which the statistics must show. Why on earth can traffic lights not be installed at b...
There is no question Bermuda will eventually become an independent, stand-alone nation ? but its people must first become independent in their own minds and nurture a true national identity and sense of one community.
That is the view of union chief ...
DATE: Apr 13, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Lights at Tee Street
April 8, 2006
Dear Sir,
Yet another accident at the South Shore end of Tee Street on April 6. Both ends of this road are notorious accident spots, which the statistics must show. Why on earth can traffic lights not be installed a...
