September 21, 2005
Dear Sir,
This letter is directed to Premier Alex Scott
I don't quite know where to start this letter to you, so I guess I will start with yesterday. After listening to you on the radio news whilst driving home from work and then a...
Traditions, customs and laws that have served Bermuda well during all its history as a British dependency will be preserved even if the Island takes the road of Independence.
Within hours of a warning from the international business community that th...
DATE: Sep 30, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Earlier this year, Dame Lois Browne Evans made a rather odd comment. During a meeting of the Bermuda Independence Commission, she suggested that Independence could pave the way for the reintroduction of capital and corporal punishment, should an inde...
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...
