If the first public meeting on Independence is anything to go by, attendees should be prepared to hear very little that they don?t already know and, when asking questions, to be prepared to be told by the Bermuda Independence Commission that it does ...
Members of the United Nations Decolonisation Committee (Special Committee of 24, or SC-24) arrived on the Island last night to begin talks with Bermudians about the process of going Independent. The SC-24 has been helping countries move to sovereignt...
March 21, 2005
Dear Sir,
"The truth shall set you free".
The truth may not always please one or saturate one with happiness, but it should stop the vilification that is going on right now in the public forum. I do feel moved to clear up the matter of...
Bermuda will have the option to retain the Privy Council if the Island chooses Independence, the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) announced on Thursday night.
Commissioners also revealed some of the content of their discussions with bodies such ...
AMONG the most popular of the new proverbs daubed across the riot-scarred faces of Parisian buildings during the early, heady days of the 1968 student-led unrest read: "Be realistic/Demand the impossible."
Such catchy but self-contradictory sloganeer...
I HAD believed that when it came to the question of the recent demise of the Front Street store Trimingham Brothers, the Progressive Labour Party Government, on this occasion, could not possibly be blamed.
But, alas, it appears that I too occasionall...
THE Bermuda delegation at the meeting of the UN's Special Committee on Decolonisation (UNSCD) on February 17 heard UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fr?chette encourage the Committee to "explore ways to accelerate the decolonisation of the 16 remain...
Government had to run home to mommy when they got the idea for their Central Policy Unit (CPU) from the UK Government, Opposition Senator Bob Richards said during the budget debate in the Senate yesterday.
?For a party hell-bent on taking us to Indep...
Staff at the National Drug Commission will become public servants when the NDC is amalgamated into the Health Ministry this year.
However, while Government Senators on Friday swore that the move to absorb the NDC in no way diminishes Government's fig...
Embarrassed by Govt.
March 10, 2005
Dear Sir,
The news carried in in yesterday?s and today?s issues concerning the failure of Trimingham?s is enough to turn the stomach.
First of all you have the Premier saying he knew nothing about it. Then in anoth...
