The Bank of Bermuda got a resounding vote of confidence from HSBC's top bosses yesterday, with chairman Sir John Bond saying the banking giant had been strengthened through the acquisition.
HSBC, the world's second largest bank by market capitalisati...
AS I indicated in last week's the factors that led to the creation of the great Independence movement that swept the globe in the post-World War Two era left Bermuda behind.
The desire that led so many other peoples to seek self-determination will ne...
BRITAIN is already a month late in making an announcement on its policy regarding the mechanism Bermuda and other Overseas Territories should use to achieve Independence.
And, according to Government House, the decision that was promised by Christmas...
CALL it soul erosion, for want of a better term. Just as wind and water are forever degrading Bermuda's topsoil, so too do other irresistible, almost elemental forces act on and deplete its human ecosystem.
The socio-economic chasm that has opened up...
BERMUDA Independence Commission (BIC) chairman Bishop Vernon Lambe vowed yesterday that the panel chosen to explore the options on Independence would present its findings in a paper to the Cabinet "in six months at the latest".
Before then, BIC will ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Governor Sir John Vereker last night backed the Island's Independence debate.
In an address to HSBC banking titans and Government leaders gathered for a power dinner last night, Sir John told board members they had made a good choice in coming to Ber...
The Bermuda Independence Commission called for "full participation" from the community yesterday as its investigation into the pros and cons of Independence picked up speed.
A local thirst for information; a younger, college-educated voting demograph...
A RECENT survey finds that most people are more concerned about the issue of crime than anything else and least concerned about the issue of Independence.
While I am prepared to defend the Premier for raising the issue of Independence in view of the ...
No dreams of dictatorship
January 18, 2004
Dear Sir,
I really liked Mr. Cracknell's letter because it reaches out and shakes the issue of political ambition. He clearly lays out the issue in terms I have heard many people bandying without expressing ...
ANYONE who has spent an afternoon in a boat a few miles off shore Bermuda, anyone who has hovered over the island in a helicopter, can see the whole island at a glance from end to end. No one in his right mind would describe this volcanic outcrop as ...
