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...
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...
