Bermuda will walk a perilous Independence path if it breaks away from the United Kingdom-based legal system and customs and traditions that currently makes international business feel ?comfortable? about operating on the Island.
Two organisations rep...
DATE: Sep 29, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Sir John was right
September 22, 2005
Dear Sir,
Sir John Swan hit the nail on the head. He said what hundreds and hundreds of people in Bermuda have been thinking and wanting to say for years. The PLP had a chance to be a breath of fresh air. They co...
The 68-year-old Hamilton grandmother who told she struggled to make ends meet on her pension will have all her bills paid by Financial Assistance by October.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, is one of 7,000 seniors in Bermuda ? half of ...
Through the first half of this year, there were signs at last that tourism was starting to stage a recovery after 15 year of steady and seemingly unstoppable decline.
Air and cruise arrivals were up compared to the first six months of 2004, and overa...
Honouring a quiet hero
September 24, 2005
Dear Sir,
On a recent vacation trip, I came across a business card I had left in a travel bag from our annual fall trip to St. George's Club in Bermuda. I paused to reminisce about the circumstances around wh...
Protect our heritage
September 15, 2005
Dear Sir,
The recent article by Dr. Harris in the Mid Ocean News titled ?Washing away our Heritage? in which he claims that ?Since the early 1950?s a man-made underwater tsunami has swept through the historic s...
A week, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said, is a long time in politics.
Certainly, the Progressive Labour Party government must feel the last two weeks have been excessively long.
First, the Bermuda Independence Commission unveiled...
A poll of Bermudians taken just days before the release of the Bermuda Independence Commission?s report found that a large percentage are not only against Independence, but if they had to decide, they would want to do so by referendum.
These were the...
A note of thanks
September 15, 2005
Dear sir,
We would like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt appreciation to all the sponsors and supporters of the charity buffet which took place on Labour Day, September 5, in aid of the West Africa...
Bermuda is hosting three African tourism ministers and leading academics during the planning conference for the African Diaspora Heritage Trail.
The trail was the vision of former tourism minister, the late David Allen. He hoped that a trail could be...
