The Bank of Butterfield has registered a planning application for additions to be made to the existing five storey building in Bermudiana Road. Renovations are currently being made to the Rosebank Centre, but the proposed additions will create additi...
THE House on the Hill was really rocking, for a time, Mr. Editor, after Dr. Grant Gibbons delivered the Opposition's official Budget Reply. His comments about corruption and integrity and scandal and conflicts of interest touched a nerve.
Government'...
RECENT comments made by columnist Phillip Wells (A Limey in Bermuda), concerning the merits of the Ashay Rites of Passage programme at Dellwood Middle School, has prompted me to challenge some of his assumptions about the usefulness of the programme ...
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...
