Washington think tank the Council for Hemispheric Affairs has been both lionised and shredded for its analysis of Bermuda's Independence debate.
The analysis, which came out in January, has been seen as either a clear-sighted look at the issues from ...
It is impossible to prove that Independence will solve racial tensions in Bermuda, the Washington Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) said yesterday.
Bermudians who believe it will should vote for Independence ? yet there is no reason that steps ca...
spokesman Jon Brunson said Government was doing nothing to address soaring house prices with the average home costing $1.2 million.
He said young Bermudians were working two jobs but were still broke. ?Does this budget address this issue??
He said th...
Giving a reply to a Budget in which few taxes were increased and there were no spending cuts is not the easiest task in the world. Nonetheless, Shadow Finance Minister and Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons had the job on Friday, and on the whole, he di...
To His Honour the Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly:
Mr. Speaker,
I am pleased to present to this Honourable House the United Bermuda Party reply to the 2005/2006 Budget Statement.
The community must feel a sense of d?j? vu afte...
The United Bermuda Party did not know whether to laugh or cry at the 2005/06 Budget yesterday.
Seven years and nearly four billion dollars after the PLP was elected to Government, Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons said yesterday, the social fabri...
The world is changing
February 21, 2005
Dear Sir,
I noticed that Spain has begun the process of ratifying the new European constitution by having a referendum, something that we in Bermuda were not allowed to have for the changes made to our Constitu...
THE late L. Frederick Wade, leader of the Progressive Labour Party between 1985 and 1995, had rather a world-weary ? but not entirely incorrect ? view of Bermudian public life. "There is life after politics," he once said. "I learned that the hard wa...
WITH Government's track record so far of corruption, looking out for their own benefits and bonuses ? and the lack of any really tangible progress or improvement in addressing any of our numerous and incredibly important social problems ? I and many ...
FORGET what's in a name, Mr. Editor, instead: What's in a word? Not much really, but when combined with other, presumably, carefully chosen words, they do tend to point the reader in a certain direction – and usually for a reason.
Such was the case l...
