Courageous Webb deserves praise for gay amendment
December 4, 2005,
IT was impressive to note that Renée Webb has so much more courage than does the lily-livered Dale Butler. I used to have a certain amount of respect for Dale butler, but no longer....
Bermuda insurance company Allied World Assurance Company is ending an agreement under which it out-sourced certain functions to its largest shareholder, American International Group Inc.
The agreement, under which AIG staff were contracted to do AWAC...
Seeing the awful light(s)
November 26, 2005
Dear Sir,
It's great to see that there is $11 million for cricket and $35,000 for a ministerial parking spot, but we've been using the same chipped up Christmas lights since the 1970s. Anybody visiting the ...
New anti-drug supremo Wayne Perinchief has called for mandatory drug testing of MPs ? despite his own party?s reluctance to embrace the issue.
In his first major interview since being appointed to head the new National Drug Control Ministry he urged ...
“Every institution must change and develop, or it will die. Parliament is no exception...”The change I am talking about is the Parliamentary Process. The Improvement of the effectiveness of Parliament and the political system in general. A change to ...
More than a third of a million dollars has been spent by the Government to fund the Bermuda Independence Commission and its recently published report on independence.
Premier Alex Scott disclosed the cost after a written question from UBP House Leade...
DATE: Dec 03, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Bermudians For Referendum are once again campaigning for your signature. This time to collect an additional 1,023 signatures needed to surpass the group?s new target of 51 percent.
The group announced it had to make absolutely sure there is no doubt ...
IS the concept of a so-called multiracial society a failure in terms of its social relations? I pose this question — perhaps rhetorical, perhaps not — because there’s a perception abroad in Bermuda that the island has never been more racially polaris...
The Department of Communication and Information said copies of the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) report were available from its office in Global House, Church Street. However, Director Beverle Lottimore said the reports remained uncorrected. ...
Editorial was unfair
November 7, 2005
Dear Sir,
I must disagree with your editorial of November 5, which unfairly criticised the Bermuda Independence Commission's treatment of the potential drawbacks to Independence.
In your editorial, you stated: "W...
