Senior school students in Bermuda want to know why Government is pushing for Independence when there are more pressing issues like crime and a housing shortage.
Students at Berkeley Institute had the opportunity to ask the Bermuda Independence Commis...
Holding us back
April 8, 2005
Dear Sir,
I thank you for affording me the opportunity to give my opinion in the paper. I am a Bermudian studying abroad in university, but I read The Royal Gazette online as often as possible. I often am provoked into d...
Solve rental problem
April 8, 2005
Dear Sir,
It is so apparent to me, as I am sure it is to many of my fellow Bermudians, that there is a real housing crisis in Bermuda. Not a crisis of home ownership, but a crisis of finding real and affordable hous...
IT'S not often that I get to debate a white person one-on-one on the question of race and the different perceptions of this issue held by black and white people so this week I will continue the long-distance discourse between myself and correspondent...
Trimingham?s:The truth
April 12, 2005
Dear Sir,
I write in response to the letters from ?loyal customer of A.S. Cooper? & ?Saks of Devonshire? of April 12:
1. Trimingham?s tried at every possible opportunity to retail goods at either US Retail, or at...
April 2, 2005
Dear Sir,
R. Hamill and other contributors seem to have missed the fundamental driver in the quest for Independence. Bermuda's quest is about democracy in its purest sense: fairness and equity with respect to power. When the American co...
MUCH to the chagrin of the anti-Independence lobby, the recent visit to Bermuda by the United Nations' Decolonisation Committee proved to be a useful exercise, giving Bermudians the opportunity to talk to and ask questions of nationals from other cou...
Finance Minister Paula Cox last night defended Bermuda?s reputation as a leading financial centre, in the face of growing scrutiny from US regulators on business deals with Bermuda-based companies.
At the centre of regulator probes has been commercia...
Setting the record straight
March 30, 2005
Dear Sir,
I am grateful for the opportunity to reply to the letter on March 30 from Bill Nearon concerning the deportation of Kenith Bulford by private jet from Jamaica to Bermuda. Since 9/11, most commercia...
Countries that are setting examples we would be best advised not to follow
April 6, 2005
THE same week the United Nations' ridiculous Decolonisation Committee flew into Bermuda to lecture us on how to go about becoming a player on the global stage, m...
