I know what I signed
September 23, 2005
Dear Sir,
It has taken me a few days to write this letter to you. I have experienced an entire range of emotions this week; anger, outrage, disappointment, and finally sadness.
I refer to the comment you made w...
Look at the costs
September 23, 2005
Dear Sir,
Missing from the media coverage surrounding the report of the Bermuda Independence Commission has been a critical examination of the potential benefits and costs of independence. Instead the coverage has...
The PLP said yesterday the Opposition insulted the country by distancing themselves from the independence debate.
However, the UBP said either the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) or the PLP ?screwed up? by leaving out its submission.
?The Premi...
The Progressive Labour Party fears that Bermudians for Referendum is a phantom arm of the United Bermuda Party.
PLP spokesman Scott Simmons said yesterday the PLP hoped that Bermudians for Referendum was not the voice of the UBP which he said was not...
September 17, 2005
Dear Sir,
Further to Sarah Titterton's Friday article on the use of referendums to decide major sovereign issues, perhaps we can conclude that the members of the Bermuda Independence Commission either do not know how to use that mo...
The row over the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) report rumbled on yesterday, with Premier Alex Scott accusing opposition leader Grant Gibbons of misleading the media and public.
The Premier expressed a desire to ?set the record straight? regar...
Amid the bias and the editorialising that suffused the final report of the much-maligned Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) there was one recommendation that, of itself, justified that body's existence.
The report explicitly acknowledged the need ...
As ?Limey in Bermuda? Phillip Wells points out, the Bermuda Independence Commission?s report wasn?t all bad.
It spent some time dealing with the issue of race, as did the United Nations Decolonisation Committee in its report on its visits to Bermuda....
Parliamentarians ought to prepare themselves to debate the details of Independence referendum legislation during the coming session the Opposition leader declared yesterday, as he demanded Government set a date early next year for a test on Bermudian...
The Bamboozle, Indoctrinate and Condition Report, I mean the Bermuda Independence Commission Report, is in, all 600 pages of it. And what's the conclusion? Let me summarise: "We misled you because we had to."
The unwelcome six-month intrusion by "not...
