What started off as the official hand-over of the Bermudians for Referendum petition yesterday turned into a full-blown debate on the steps of Cabinet when the Premier said ?folks signed it and didn?t even know what they were signing?.
A group of abo...
Bermuda is in danger of becoming a Third World nation unless it starts making plans to safeguard its future, former Premier Sir John Swan warned Rotarians yesterday.
After giving a robust speech that was ?not as billed? yesterday Sir John also mentio...
DATE: Sep 21, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Premier Alex Scott yesterday told members of the Bermudians for Referendum and the press that the United Bermuda Party "chose not to participate" in the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) Report.
The Premier handed a copy of the BIC report to the ...
It has been ten years since I have been out of office as Premier of Bermuda. The Progressive Labour Party, coming to power seven years ago as a new and untested Government gave me cause to be restrained in my comments. I waited because I wanted to gi...
Rules are rules
September 12, 2005
Dear Sir,
I am responding to the letter written by Robert Henderson referring to the Airport security guard who refused to allow tourists to snap a photo before getting on their plane. I have a relative who is an Ai...
The test for the Independence Commission was always going to be whether it would be able to fairly and fearlessly present both sides of the Independence issue without appearing to be biased one way or the other.
Given the near impossibility of anyone...
The Bermuda Independence Commission has failed to include a submission made to them on the topic of Independnce by the United Bermuda Party in their final report.
The PLP submission to the BIC is found at Annex 7 of the report. The former UBP Governm...
Independence advocate and political analyst Walton Brown yesterday welcomed the Bermuda Independence Commission Report, saying it would help to spark an informed debate on the issue.
Now, he said, the Government must let the public know what it inten...
The Bermuda Independence Commission?s claim that it could find no instance in which a country determined its position on Independence by way of a referendum missed a country that should have been close to the hearts of its members ? Bermuda in 1995.
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The Bermuda Independence Commission tried to be not only a commission on Independence, but also an independent commission, its chairman said yesterday.
And Bishop Vernon Lamb said he hoped the BIC?s report released yesterday would ?serve as a light t...
