We've been travelling with the handicapped for about eight years now. We try to travel every two years. A lot of them are on financial assistance, so we have to raise a lot of funds to be able to do it.
We have bake sales, tea parties and pledge shee...
He earned our respect
April 4, 2005
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you regarding the story on Major Herman Eve's retirement from the Regiment. I am now 48 years old, but when I was 16 I joined Junior Leaders, the cadet corps for the Bermuda Regiment. Sgt....
Bermuda?s stringent regulatory framework is the reason behind the success of the Island as an international business jurisdiction, Premier Alex Scott told the 5th Annual Euromoney/Latin Finance Caribbean Investment Forum on Monday.
Giving his keynote...
A controversial private holding company controlled by AIG's most powerful people - and holding some $15.8 billion in AIG shares - is no longer based at AIG's Bermuda office on Richmond Road.
Starr International Company (SICo) holds about 12 percent o...
Just serving time
March 28, 2005
Dear Sir,
I am writing to ask why we still view (male only) conscription as an acceptable practice.
I see nothing wrong with Bermuda keeping its Regiment, but forced involvement through conscription is unethical and s...
THERE are times when those charged with managing Bermuda's affairs are of more interest as possible case studies in the pathology of Narcissistic Personality Disorder than for any decisions they make. Or don't make, as is so often the case.
A former ...
NOW that the Bermuda Independence Commisison (BIC) is pow-wowing with the United Nation's Decolonisation Committee, it has met (or will be meeting) with a French Canadian (at least Quebec holds free and fair referendums on the subject of Independence...
March 30, 2005
Dear Sir,
In the local media the other day there was a picture of a four-door hatchback car, a Toyota RAV4, starting at $42,000. Seeing these sell for $18,750 on the Internet in the US, this seemed a misprint until seeing other prices ...
The chairman of the United Nations Decolonisation Committee was not interested in polls declaring that the vast majority of Bermudians are against Independence yesterday.
And Sir Julian Hunte said the question of General Election or referendum was ?t...
THE UN Special Committee of Decolonisation (UNSCD) wants to put itself out of business, and the sooner the better.
Six members arrived in Bermuda last Sunday to talk to members of the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC), and they have been present ...
