Just the facts, please
January 5, 2005
Dear Sir,
After reading the article "Report slams Scott for blinkered view of Independence" in today's Royal Gazette and listening to the many voices on talk radio and to people in general on the subject of Berm...
THE Director of the Council On Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a left-of-centre Washington research and information organisation, warned the Mid-Ocean News that Bermuda must beware the Government-level "cronyism, nepotism, and corruption" that had plague...
Is Bermuda?s Independence near? Unlikely.
The debate over Bermuda?s Independence continues with intensity, but without much success in a country that possessed self-rule for centuries.
The tsunami tragedy has absorbed the Island colony, but a politic...
LAST week, Bermudian jack-of-all-trades Alpheaus Black ? Ardie for short ? was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year Honours.
Mr. Black, 79, is the proprietor of Black's Blacksmith Shop on King Street, bu...
HERE is nothing like a full-blooded attack on the opinions of a columnist to test your mettle. Quite frankly, it has long been a disappointment of mine that more readers don't challenge my views; after all, I do not consider everything that I produce...
Premier Alex Scott is committing political suicide by foisting Independence upon a sceptical public, a study by a respected independent American think-tank has argued.
In the report, Ashley Rasmussen, a research associate at the Council of Hemispheri...
Taking the next step
December 30, 2004
Dear Sir,
Independence! “What is so frightening about it?”
Some of the theories advanced thus far (a) We're too small to go independent (b) It will cost too much; Embassies, Consulates, High Commissions. (c) Who...
What?s the GP car policy?
January 1, 2004
Dear Sir,
Your recent story on the soldier using the Premier?s official car to do his shopping made me wonder about the policy regarding use of GP1 and other Government vehicles. I remember seeing Premier Joh...
The past year may have lacked a catastrophic moment like 2003?s Hurricane Fabian but there were still storms aplenty across Bermuda?s political and social landscape.
The year started on a sombre note with the death of one of the Island?s favourite so...
Historic events rarely happen completely within the tidy boundaries of a singular calendar year, and 2004 was no exception. It was a year of political transition, social anxiety and great expectations and some despair among constituents.
It ended wit...
